Simon_the_Tanner Saint Simon the Shoemaker (10th century), also known as Simon the Tanner (Sama'an el-Dabbagh in Arabic), is the Coptic Orthodox saint associated with the legend of the moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt, during the rule of the Muslim Fatimid Caliph Al-Muizz Li-Deenillah (953 - 975).Saint Simon (Simeon) lived towards the end of the 10th century when Egypt was ruled by the Fatimid Caliph, Al-Muizz and Abraham the Syrian was the Coptic Pope.