Cairo : histories of a city
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Histories of a city |
|---|---|
| 1. Verfasser: |
AlSayyad, Nezar
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press,
2011.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xix, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
