02135nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10498099 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100928s2011 mauab sb 001 0 eng d 2010041688 9780674047860 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0674047869 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780674060791 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)754842179 f-ua--- NA1583 .A47 2011eb 720.962/16 22 AlSayyad, Nezar. Cairo [electronic resource] : histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad. Histories of a city Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. xix, 325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Architecture Egypt Cairo History. Architecture and society Egypt Cairo History. City planning Egypt Cairo History. Cairo (Egypt) Buildings, structures, etc. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10498099 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 242579 242579