Cairo : histories of a city /

Cairo : histories of a city /

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Main Author: AlSayyad, Nezar (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press, 2011.

Edition: 1st ed.

Subjects:

Architecture and society > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Architecture > Egypt > Cairo > History.
City planning > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Cairo (Egypt) > Buildings, structures, etc.

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Call Number: DT148 .A47 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preamble : reading and writing Cairo
  • Memphis : the first Cairo
  • From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave
  • Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam
  • Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town
  • Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree
  • The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans
  • Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks
  • A provincial capital under Ottoman rule
  • A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali
  • Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive
  • The Arab republic and the city of Nasser
  • Escaping the present, consuming the past.