AlSayyad, Nezar. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674060791 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--History.--Egypt--Cairo<br/>Architecture and society--History.--Egypt--Cairo<br/>City planning--History.--Egypt--Cairo
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Cairo (Egypt)--Buildings, structures, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA1583  / .A47 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.962/16