The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, producing in the early fifteenth century, attributes the loss of the nose to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim through the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada in 1378, who located nearby peasants earning offerings on the Sphinx from the hope of growing their harvest and therefore defaced https://www.luxreisen.net/blog/ferien-in-%C3%A4gypten