Palace of gold and light : treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul.
: Exhibition held at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Mar. 1-June 15, 2000, at San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, July 14-Sep. 24, 2000, at Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 15, 2000-Feb. 28, 2001. : 183 pages : color illustration ; 28 cm. : 0967863902
Creating medieval Cairo : empire, religion, and architectural preservation in nineteenth-century Egypt /
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"This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: namely, the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comiť) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Sanders explores such varied topics as the British experience in India, the Egyptian debate over religious reform, and the influence of The Thousand and One Nights on European notions of the medieval Arab city ... this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo."
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xv, 216 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-206) and index. :
9774160959
Before the pyramids : the origins of Egyptian civilization /
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"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... March 28-December 31, 2011"-- Title page verso. :
288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-288). :
9781885923820 (pbk.)
1885923821 (pbk.)
Age of transition : Byzantine culture in the Islamic world /
: This publication includes all essays presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the following programs: Sunday at the Met, March 18, 2012; Perspectives on Byzantium and Islam: A Symposium, March 20, 2012; Floor Mosaics in the Late Antique Mediterranean: A Kallinikeion Colloquium in Byzantine Studies Symposium, May 11, 2012; A Scholars Day Workshop: Collecting Byzantine and Islamic Art, June 4, 2012. : ix, 158 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781588395597 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)