For two centuries after conquest Egypt remained a governed province of the eastern Caliphate.

Evidence

During the first four centuries of Islam, Egypt went through three major phases, each of which has left its mark in the capital city. During the first phase, for more than two centuries after the Arab conquest, Egypt was a province of an Empire with its capital elsewhere. The administrative centre was Fustat, a provincial garrison city set up by the conquerors, conveniently near both the desert that was their line of communication with home, and the bureaucratic cadres bequeathed by the previous empire. The rulers of Egypt were governors, appointed by and answerable to the Caliph in the East; her corn fed Arabia; her revenues enriched the imperial treasury. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 372

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egypt remained an Ottoman province governed by an annually invested vali — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 182; The Muslim conquest of Syria initially preserved Byzantine administrative continuity. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 260; Mehmed Ali’s army secured dynastic rule over Egypt for a century — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1702 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Egypt remained an Ottoman province governed by an annually invested vali — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 182; The Muslim conquest of Syria initially preserved Byzantine administrative continuity. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 260; Mehmed Ali’s army secured dynastic rule over Egypt for a century — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1702 (+1 more)