TY  - BOOK
AU  - AlSayyad,Nezar
TI  - Cairo: histories of a city 
SN  - 9780674072459
U1  - 720.96216 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, England
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Islamic architecture
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - NGU-sh
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - history
KW  - 20th century
KW  - City planning
KW  - Buildings
N1  - 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
ER  -