Return journey to Egypt with tax-inspector entourage
· Fustat (present-day Cairo), Egypt

Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International · file The same account records a second documented Egyptian journey while Abu Nuwas was attached to the Inspector of Land Taxes' entourage. The source uses the retrospective name Cairo; the Abbasid-era administrative center was Fustat in present-day Cairo. Coordinates represent Fustat.