Cairo
histories of a city
Histories of a city
AlSayyad, Nezar.
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ebrary, Inc
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bibliography
Electronic books.
mau
Cambridge, Mass
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2011
monographic
eng
xix, 325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.
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.
Nezar AlSayyad.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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