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Author AlSayyad, Nezar, author.

Title Cairo : histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad
Edition 1st ed
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 325 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
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
Summary "Details the shifts in Cairo's built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
SUBJECT al- Markaz al-ʿArabī li-d-Dirāsāt Kairo gnd
Subject Architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
Architecture and society -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
Architecture
Architecture and society
Buildings
City planning
Geschichte
Arquitectura -- Egipte -- Caire -- Història.
Urbanisme -- Egipte -- Caire -- Història.
SUBJECT Cairo (Egypt) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Egypt -- Cairo
Kairo
Genre/Form Electronic book
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010041688
ISBN 9780674060791
0674060792
Other Titles Histories of a city