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Cairo : histories of a city

By: Publication details: London Belknap Press of Harvard University press 2011Description: xx,325pISBN:
  • 9780674072459
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  • 720.962 ALS
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CONTENTS Preface I ix Pre amble: Reading and Writing Cairo I xiii Road Map I xvii 1. Memphis: The First Cairo I 1 2. From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave 1 19 3. Fustat-Misr: The City of Arab Islam I 39 4. Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town I 55 5. Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree I 77 6. The Bahri Mamluks: The City of the Slave Sultans 1 93 7. Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks I 117 8. A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule 1 149 9. A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali 171 10. Modernizing the New, Medievalizing the Old: The City of the Khedive 199 11. The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser 229 12. Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past 255 Appendix: Notes on Transliteration and Dates 281 Glossary 283 Endnotes 289 Figures and Credits 313 Index I 317
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CONTENTS
Preface I ix
Pre amble: Reading and Writing Cairo I xiii
Road Map I xvii
1. Memphis: The First Cairo I 1
2. From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave 1 19
3. Fustat-Misr: The City of Arab Islam I 39
4. Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town I 55
5. Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree I 77
6. The Bahri Mamluks: The City of the Slave Sultans 1 93
7. Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks I 117
8. A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule 1 149
9. A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali 171 10. Modernizing the New, Medievalizing the Old: The City of the Khedive 199
11. The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser 229
12. Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past 255
Appendix: Notes on Transliteration and Dates 281
Glossary 283
Endnotes 289
Figures and Credits 313
Index I 317

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