Shuhada

Shuhada is a city and the seat of a markaz in the Monufia Governorate of the Nile Delta, Egypt. Its name means the martyrs, after the shrines of martyrs of the Islamic conquest of Egypt, of which the most prominent is the shrine of Sidi Shibl, said to be a son of the Companion Fadl ibn al-Abbas. That shrine, beside the tomb of the Sufi saint Ahmad al-Ahmadi al-Misri, known as al-Suhaymi, who died in 1633 to 1634, became one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in the Delta, and its mawlid is held a week before the mawlid of Ahmad al-Badawi in Tanta. Nothing is known of Shuhada before the end of the Mamluk period; it is recorded as Kafr al-Shuhada, with an oratory, by 1510 to 1511, grew in the seventeenth century, and became the district center in 1941, replacing Sirsina. The census of 1885 counted 2,873 people there, and the official estimate for July 2023 is 78,919.