AlSayyad, Nezar, <br/><br/>
Cairo :  histories of a city / 

 - First edition. 
 - xix, 325 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes glossary. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674072459 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islamic architecture--Egypt--Cairo.<br/>Architecture.<br/>Architecture and society--history--20th century.<br/>City planning.<br/>Buildings.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.96216  / ALC