Cairo : histories of a city /
AlSayyad, Nezar,
Cairo : histories of a city / - First edition. - xix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Road Map: Memphis: The First Cairo -- From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave -- Fustat-Misr: The City of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town -- Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks: The City of the Slave Sultans -- Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks -- A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule -- A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the New, Medievalizing the Old: The City of the Khedive -- The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser -- Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past -- Appendix: Notes on Transliteration and Dates -- Glossary -- Endnotes -- Figures and Credits -- Index.
9780674072459
Islamic architecture--Egypt--Cairo.
Architecture.
Architecture and society--history--20th century.
City planning.
Buildings.
720.96216 / ALC
Cairo : histories of a city / - First edition. - xix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Road Map: Memphis: The First Cairo -- From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave -- Fustat-Misr: The City of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town -- Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks: The City of the Slave Sultans -- Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks -- A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule -- A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the New, Medievalizing the Old: The City of the Khedive -- The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser -- Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past -- Appendix: Notes on Transliteration and Dates -- Glossary -- Endnotes -- Figures and Credits -- Index.
9780674072459
Islamic architecture--Egypt--Cairo.
Architecture.
Architecture and society--history--20th century.
City planning.
Buildings.
720.96216 / ALC