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. :
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L'Architecture libanaise du XVe au XIXe siecle : le bonheur de vivre.
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On spine in Arabic: Matḥaf Niqūlā Ibrāhīm Sursuq.
"Ouvrage publié par M. L'Ambassadeur Camille Aboussouan ... avec l'assistance du Fonds International pour la Promotion de la Culture de l'UNESCO et du Musée Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock de Beyrouth"--P. before t.p. :
[440] p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references.