Cairo histories of a city /
AlSayyad, Nezar.
Cairo histories of a city / [electronic resource] : Histories of a city Nezar AlSayyad. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - xix, 325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780674060791 (electronic bk.)
Architecture--History.--Egypt--Cairo
Architecture and society--History.--Egypt--Cairo
City planning--History.--Egypt--Cairo
Cairo (Egypt)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Electronic books.
NA1583 / .A47 2011
720.962/16
Cairo histories of a city / [electronic resource] : Histories of a city Nezar AlSayyad. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - xix, 325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780674060791 (electronic bk.)
Architecture--History.--Egypt--Cairo
Architecture and society--History.--Egypt--Cairo
City planning--History.--Egypt--Cairo
Cairo (Egypt)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Electronic books.
NA1583 / .A47 2011
720.962/16