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Islam is the dominant religion is Egypt with 94.7 percent of population being Muslim. Islam reached Egypt in 639 AD when Muslim general Amr Ibn Al-As led an army of just 4000 started the conquest of Byzantine Egypt in the time of Muslim Caliph Umar ibn Al-Khitaab. The conquest completed in 641 AD.

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