Fuṣūl min al-tārīkh al-ijtimāʻī lil-Qāhirah al-ʻUthmānīyah /
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"Wa-hādhā al-kitāb ʻibārah ʻan majmūʻah min al-dirāsāt katabahā al-muʼallif fīmā bayna 1962 wa 1969, wa-qad nashara baʻḍahā fī Miṣr ʻan ṭarīq al-Maʻhad al-Faransī lil-Āthār al-Sharqīyah bi-al-Munīrah wa-nashara baʻḍahā khārij Miṣr"--Page 7.
Translation of : Cairo. :
304 pages ; 17 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 300-302.
Food and foodways of medieval Cairenes : aspects of life in an Islamic metropolis of the eastern Mediterranean /
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This is a pioneering study which analyzes the food cultures of medieval Cairenes on the basis of a large corpus of historical texts in Arabic. Individual chapters discuss what, why, and how the inhabitants of medieval Cairo ate what they did, and in which ways food shaped their everyday lives. Given the complex nature of "food" and "foodways" as areas of research, the book covers such diverse subjects as the genesis of the culinary culture of Egypt's capital and various practices related to food and eating. This monograph also considers several relevant social, political and economic circumstances in medieval Cairo, studying food culture in its broader context.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004206465 :
0929-2403 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Primordial history, print capitalism, and egyptology in nineteenth-century Cairo : Mustafa Salama al-Naggari's The garden of Ismail's praise /
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129, 444 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-129). :
9782724707496 :
0254-282X ;
35.
Cinematic Cairo : Egyptian urban modernity from reel to real /
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"The relationship between the city and cinema is formidable. The images and sounds of the city found in movies are perhaps the only experience that many people will have of cities they may never visit. Films influence the way we construct images of the world, and accordingly, in many instances, how we operate within it. Cinematic Cairo offers a history of Cairo's urban modernity using film as the primary source of exploration, and cinematic space as both an analytical tool and a medium of critique. Cairo has provided rich subject material for the Egyptian film industry since the inception of the art form at the end of the nineteenth century. The "reel" city-imagined, perceived, and experienced-provides the spatial domain that mirrors change and allows for an interrogation of the "real" city as it encountered modernity over the course of a century. Bringing together chapters by architects and art and literary historians, this volume explores this parallel and convergent relationship through two sections. The first uses films from the 1930s to the end of the twentieth century to illustrate the development of a modern Cairo and its modern subjects. The second section is focused on tracing the transformation of the cinematic city under conditions of neoliberalism, religious fundamentalism, and gender tensions. The result is a comprehensive narrative of the urban modernity of one of the most important cities in the Arab world and Global South."--
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xxxiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781649031334