The Mosques of Egypt /
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Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 639. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built Africa's first mosque, one still in regular use today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt in a changing sequence of Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and modern styles. Here, a leading historian of Islamic art and culture celebrates the great variety of Egypt's mosques and related religious buildings, from the early congregational mosques, through the medieval mausoleum--madrasas, to the neighborhood mosques of the Ottoman and modern periods. With outstanding architectural photography and authoritative descriptive texts, this book will be valued as the finest on the subject by scholars and general readers alike. Includes more that 80 of the country's most historic mosques, with more than 500 color photographs. -- Inside jacket flap.
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xxxix, 359 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 351-356) and index. :
9789774167324
Islamic Cairo : architectural conservation and urban development of the historic centre : proceedings of a seminar organised by the Goethe-Institute, Cairo (October 1-5, 1978) /
: On leaf preceding t. pages : Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo. : 106 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 0906468043
Anciennes voies et monuments routiers de la région d'Ispahân, suivis de plusieurs autres édifices de cette province : à Tidjen, Varkand, Qomsâr, Ob-Yaneh, Chapour-Âbâd, Haftchouyeh...
: viii, 316 pages, 30 leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (1 folded), plans ; 36 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-294) and index.
Ayyubidische Architektur in Agypten und Syrien : Bautatigkeit im Kontext von Politik und Gesellschaft 564-658/1169-1260 /
: Originally published as the author's dissertation (Universität, Tübingen, 1998). : 2 volumes (239, 300 pages, 48 pages of plates) : 5 genealogical tables, illustrations, plans ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 3927552402