Cairo histories of a city /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.