| Description |
vi, 266 pages : illustrations, 1 map, ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Transnational perspectives on space and place |
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Transnational perspectives on space and place.
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| Contents |
1. Prologue : the project of making Cairo medieval / Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman and Nasser Rabbat -- 2. Disciplining the eye : perceiving medieval Cairo / Irene A. Bierman -- 3. The medieval link : Maqrizi's Khitat and modern narratives of Cairo / Nasser Rabbat -- 4. 'Ali Mubarak's Cairo : between the testimony of 'Alamuddin and the imaginary of the Khitat / Nezar AlSayyad -- 5. Performing Cairo : Orientalism and the city of the Arabian nights / Derek Gregory -- 6. Nineteenth-century images of Cairo : from the real to the interpretative / Caroline Williams -- 7. The museum of what you shall have been / Donald Preziosi -- 8. Nineteenth-century Cairo : a dual city? / Heba Farouk Ahmed -- 9. Modernizing Cairo : a revisionist narrative / Khaled Fahmy -- 10. Medievalization of the old city as an ingredient of Cairo's modernization : case study of Bab Zuwayla / Nairy Hampikian -- 11. The cemeteries of Cairo and the Comite de Conservation / May al-Ibrashy |
| Notes |
Based on a conference |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo -- 19th century.
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Islamic architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo.
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City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 19th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Cairo (Egypt) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055723 -- Buildings, structures, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820
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| Author |
AlSayyad, Nezar.
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Bierman, Irene A.
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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University of California, Berkeley.
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| LC no. |
2004025668 |
| ISBN |
0739109154 cased |
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0739109162 paperback |
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