Cairo : Histories of a City.
Nezar. AlSayyad
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (348 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Preamble: Reading and Writing Cairo -- Road Map -- Chapter 1. Memphis: The First Cairo -- Chapter 2. From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave -- Chapter 3. Fustat-Misr: The City of Arab Islam -- Chapter 4. Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town -- Chapter 5. Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- Chapter 6. The Bahri Mamluks: The City of the Slave Sultans -- Chapter 7. Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks -- Chapter 8. A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule -- Chapter 9. A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Chapter 10. Modernizing the New, Medievalizing the Old: The City of the Khedive -- Chapter 11. The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser -- Chapter 12. Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past -- Appendix: Notes on Transliteration and Dates -- Glossary -- Endnotes -- Figures and Credits -- Index.
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| ISBN | 9780674060791
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