Cairo histories of a city /

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Hoofdauteur: AlSayyad, Nezar
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.