Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah is claimed to have repaired the Old Cairo to Red Sea passageway, but only briefly, circa 1000 AD, as it soon "became choked with sand." However, we are told that parts of this canal still continued to fill in during the Nile's annual inundations.

Mehemet Ali is said to have ordered this canal closed in 1811.

Repair by Tāriqu l-Ḥākim
History of Suez Canal
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