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The dome and minaret of the Mosque of ibn Tulun are visible from a nearby street in old Cairo, Egypt. According to the tour guides, this is one of only two so-called "stepped minarets" in the Arab world. The other is the great minaret at Samarra, Iraq. © Rick Collier
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