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
The mosques of Egypt from 21 H. (641) to 1365 H. (1946) /
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Four unnumbered pages with Introduction and Preface dated 4th June 1954 inserted to replace matter between page D and page 2. Original text on p. 2 covered by mounted blank labe
"Index to Mohammedan monuments in Cairo" (11, 14, 13 pages, 2 fold. color maps) published in 1951 by the Survey of Egypt, inserted in pocket, v. 1. :
2 volumes (A-D, 133 pages) : illustrations, 243 plates (part color) plans ; 45 cm.