Making Cairo medieval /
Making Cairo medieval /
- vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Transnational perspectives on space and place .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: The Project of Making Cairo Medieval / Nezar AlSayyed, Irene A. Bierman, Nasser Rabbat -- Part I: A Medieval City for a Modern World -- Disciplining the Eye: Perceiving Medieval Cairo / Irene A. Bierman -- The Medieval Link: Maqrizi's Khitat and Modern Narratives of Cairo / Nasser Rabbat --Ali Mubarak's Cairo: Between the Testimony of Alamuddin and the Imaginary of the Khitat / Nezar AlSayyad -- Part II: Representing and Narrating -- Performing Cairo: Orientalism and the City of the Arabian Nights / Derek Gregory -- Nineteenth-Century Images of Cairo: From the Real to the Interpretative / Caroline Williams -- The Museum of What You Shall Have Been / Donald Prestost -- Part III: Disciplining and Making -- Nineteenth-Century Cairo: A Dual City? / Heba Farouk Ahmed --Modernizing Cairo: A Revisionist Narrative / Khaled Fahmy --Medievalization of the Old City as an Ingredient of Cairo's Modernization: Case Study of Bab Zuwayla / Nairy Hampikian --The Cemeteries of Cairo and the Comité de Conservation / May al-Ibrashy -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors.
9780739109151 0739109154
Architecture--history--Egypt--19th century.
Islamic architecture.
City planning--Egypt.
720.962 / MAK
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: The Project of Making Cairo Medieval / Nezar AlSayyed, Irene A. Bierman, Nasser Rabbat -- Part I: A Medieval City for a Modern World -- Disciplining the Eye: Perceiving Medieval Cairo / Irene A. Bierman -- The Medieval Link: Maqrizi's Khitat and Modern Narratives of Cairo / Nasser Rabbat --Ali Mubarak's Cairo: Between the Testimony of Alamuddin and the Imaginary of the Khitat / Nezar AlSayyad -- Part II: Representing and Narrating -- Performing Cairo: Orientalism and the City of the Arabian Nights / Derek Gregory -- Nineteenth-Century Images of Cairo: From the Real to the Interpretative / Caroline Williams -- The Museum of What You Shall Have Been / Donald Prestost -- Part III: Disciplining and Making -- Nineteenth-Century Cairo: A Dual City? / Heba Farouk Ahmed --Modernizing Cairo: A Revisionist Narrative / Khaled Fahmy --Medievalization of the Old City as an Ingredient of Cairo's Modernization: Case Study of Bab Zuwayla / Nairy Hampikian --The Cemeteries of Cairo and the Comité de Conservation / May al-Ibrashy -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors.
9780739109151 0739109154
Architecture--history--Egypt--19th century.
Islamic architecture.
City planning--Egypt.
720.962 / MAK