Editing Apartment (section)

===Ancient and medieval Egypt===
During the medieval [[History of Arab Egypt|Arabic-Islamic period]], the Egyptian capital of [[Fustat]] ([[Old Cairo]]) housed many [[high-rise]] residential buildings, some seven stories tall that could reportedly accommodate hundreds of people. In the 10th century, [[Al-Muqaddasi]] described them as resembling [[minaret]]s,<ref name=Behrens/> and stated that the majority of Fustat's population lived in these multi-story apartment buildings, each one housing more than 200 people.<ref>{{citation|title=Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World|first=James E.|last=Lindsay|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|year=2005|isbn=0-313-32270-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/dailylifeinmedie00lind/page/122 122]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dailylifeinmedie00lind/page/122}}</ref> In the 11th century, [[Nasir Khusraw]] described some of these apartment buildings rising up to fourteen stories, with [[roof garden]]s on the top story complete with ox-drawn [[water wheel]]s for irrigating them.<ref name=Behrens>{{citation|title=Islamic Architecture in Cairo|first=Doris|last=Behrens-Abouseif|year=1992|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|isbn=90-04-09626-4|page=6}}</ref>

By the 16th century, the current [[Cairo]] also had high-rise apartment buildings, in which the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple stories above them were [[Renting|rented]] out to [[Leasehold estate|tenants]].<ref>{{citation|title=Traditional Islamic principles of built environment|first=Hisham|last=Mortada|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2003|isbn=0-7007-1700-5|page=viii}}</ref>