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
Social fabrics : inscribed textiles from Medieval Egyptian tombs /
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Social Fabrics looks at tiraz - highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered, or painted inscriptions in Arabic - to trace the structure of medieval Egyptian society during a transformative period. It reveals a story as interwoven and complex as these delicate objects themselves. A foundational introduction to the topic, this exhibition catalogue combines richly illustrated entries with essays on the history of Egypt at the time, the meaning and materiality of tiraz, and the history of collecting these objects in US institutions. Created throughout the region (including lands now in Iran, Iraq, and Yemen) in the centuries following the Arab Muslim conquest of Egypt, inscribed textiles were a visual form of communication in a society that was ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. Those with inscriptions regulated by the government were particularly valued, proclaiming their owners' membership in the ruling elite.00Exhibition: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA (22.01.-08.05.2022).
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Catalog of the exhibition on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from January 22-May 8, 2022. :
x, 163 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-161). :
9780300260090
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.)
Pharaohs and mortals : Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom /
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"Exhibition organised by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 19 April to 26 June, Liverpool, 18 July to 4 September 1988."
Includes index. :
vi, 167 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. :
052135319X
0521358469 (pbk.)
La gloire d'Alexandrie : 7 mai-26 juillet 1998.
: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Musée du Petit Palais coproduced by Paris-musées and the Association française d'action artistique. : 335 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-331) and index. : 2879003989 : Sara.lib
L'Egypte antique /
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Un large panorama de l'art antique égyptien, de ses premières manifestations prédynastiques de Naqada jusqu'à la fin du règne d'Akhenaton et le début de la conquête romaine, selon un plan chronologique et historique. Avec des photographies provenant de tous les musées du monde.
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399, [1] pages : illustrations en coul., cartes en coul. ; 29 cm. :
2070116999
9782070116997
The she-wolf and the sphinx : Rome and Egypt from history to myth /
: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy, July 11-Nov. 9, 2008. : 213 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9788837062231