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100			_aAlsayyad, Nezar _982608
245			_aCairo : histories of a city
260			_aLondon _bBelknap Press of Harvard University press _c2011
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505			_aCONTENTS 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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