Cairo [electronic resource] : histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad.
AlSayyad, Nezar.
2011
NA1583 .A47 2011eb
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Title Cairo [electronic resource] : histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad.
Author AlSayyad, Nezar.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780674060791 electronic book
9780674047860 hardcover
0674047869 hardcover
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 325 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.
Call Number NA1583 .A47 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 720.962/16
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, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.
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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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