Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide (Updated 7th Edition)

by Caroline Williams

Overview

Cairo’s Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo’s spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists, then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor. This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around more than two hundred of the city’s most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789774168550
Publisher:	American University in Cairo Press, The
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Edition description:	Updated
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Caroline Williams, with graduate degrees in Middle Eastern history from Harvard and Islamic art and architecture from the American Universityin Cairo, has been a frequent resident of, visitor to, Cairo since 1961.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
1. Historical Summary and Chronology
2. Architectural and Ornamental Summary
3. The Island of Roda and Old Cairo
4. The Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun and Sharia Saliba
5. The Madrasa of Sultan Hasan and Bab al-Wazir
6. From the Mosque of Sultan Hasan to Bab Zuwayla (Darb al-Ahmar)
7. Bab Zuwayla to Sharia Saliba
8. The Southern Cemetery
9. Sharia Port Said—On and Off
10. Bab Zuwayla to the Mosque of al-Azhar
11. Al-Azhar Square to Bab al-Futuh and Back
12. The Citadel
13. The Northern Cemetery
14. Al-Husayniya and the Mosque of Baybars I
15. Bulaq
Glossary
Islamic Calendar and Principal Feasts
Bibliography
Index
Maps

Editorial Reviews

"Indispensable for exploring Cairo's architectural and cultural history"⁠—AramcoWorld

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