Cairo : histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xix, 325 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674060791
- 0674060792
- Histories of a city
- al- Markaz al-ʻArabī li-d-Dirāsāt Kairo
- Architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
- Architecture and society -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
- City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History
- Cairo (Egypt) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Architecture -- Égypte -- Le Caire -- Histoire
- Architecture et société -- Égypte -- Le Caire -- Histoire
- ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism
- ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General
- ARCHITECTURE -- Regional
- HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt
- Architecture
- Architecture and society
- Buildings
- City planning
- Egypt -- Cairo
- Geschichte
- Kairo
- Kairo
- 720.962/16 22
- NA1583 .A47 2011eb
- EH 5439
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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"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
In English.
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