ISBN:
9780674072459
,
9780674047860
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 325 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
25 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
DDC:
720.962/16
Keywords:
Architecture History
;
Architecture and society History
;
City planning History
;
Cairo (Egypt) Buildings, structures, etc
;
Architecture
;
Egypt
;
Cairo
;
History
;
Architecture and society
;
Egypt
;
Cairo
;
History
;
City planning
;
Egypt
;
Cairo
;
History
;
Cairo (Egypt)
;
Buildings, structures, etc
;
Kairo
;
Geschichte
;
Städtebau
Description / Table of Contents:
Preamble. Reading and writing Cairo -- 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.
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index. - Preamble : reading and writing Cairo -- 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
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