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
Architetti e ingegneri italiani in Egitto dal diciannovesimo al ventunesimo secolo = Italian architects and engineers in Egypt from the nineteenth to twentyfirst century /
: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Biblioteca Alessandrina, Alessandria d'Egitto, Egypt, Oct. 24-Nov. 25, 2008. : 235, [13] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. : Includes bibliographical references ([241]-[245]). : 9788888967974
Ägypten, Nubien und die Cyrenaika : die imaginäre Reise des Norbert Bittner (1786-1851) /
: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kupferstichkabinett (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien), January 19 - February 26, 2012; Residenzgalerie Salzburg, May 3 - July 1, 2012; Winckelmann Museum Stendal, July 17 - October 14, 2012; Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, 2013. : 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-144). : 9783447066921 (pbk.)