Historians In Cairo

Author : Nezar AlSayyad
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674047869
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cairo written by Nezar AlSayyad and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city’s history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form. In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo’s built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order—a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt's various rulers and regimes—from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond—have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today.

Author : John McMurray Lansden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois written by John McMurray Lansden and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : André Raymond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774246609
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cairo written by André Raymond and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674003163
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cairo written by André Raymond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary tapestry of Cairo's past and present comes vividly to life in this magisterial study by one of the top social historians of the Arab world. This deeply observed account shows Cairo from the glimmer of its beginnings in the Arab conquest of Egypt in 640 through its transformation into the modern center of Middle Eastern life today. 63 halftones. Maps & tables.

Author : Gawdat Gabra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9774164598
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo written by Gawdat Gabra and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2013 PROSE Awards Architecture & Urban Planning honorable mention Just to the south of modern Cairo stands the historic enclave known as Old Cairo, which grew up in and around the Roman fortress of Babylon, and which today hosts a unique collection of monuments that attest to the shared cultural heritage of ancient Egyptians, Christians, Jews, and Muslims. In this lavishly illustrated celebration of a very special place, renowned photographer Sherif Sonbol's remarkable images of the fortress, churches, synagogue, and mosque illuminate the living fabric of the ancient and medieval stones, while Gawdat Gabra describes the history of Old Cairo from the time of the ancient Egyptians and the Romans to the founding of the first Muslim city of al-Fustat. Stefan Reif focuses on the Jewish history of the area, exploring the famous Genizah documents found in the Ben Ezra Synagogue that tell so much about everyday life in medieval Egypt. Gertrud van Loon looks at the early Coptic Christian churches, some of the oldest in the world, and Tarek Swelim describes the arrival of the Muslims in the seventh century, their establishment of al-Fustat on the edge of Old Cairo, and the building of the Mosque of 'Amr ibn al-'As, the oldest mosque in Africa.

Author : John M. Lansden
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386593
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois written by John M. Lansden and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print and much sought after bycollectors, Lansden’s classic 1910 history of Cairo remains valuable for the early history of the city. Its reprinting here, with a new Foreword by Clyde C. Walton, former Illinois State Historian, thus makes available again one of the finest examples of local history ever written, stressing as itdoes Cairo’s important relations with its area and with the country—in Lansden’s words, “this part of the Valley of the Mississippi—this Illinois Country.”

Author : Anthony Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135145334
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt written by Anthony Gorman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the state and non-academic scholarship and the tension between them in contesting the modern history of Egypt. In a detailed discussion of the literature, the study analyzes the political nature of competing interpretations and uses the examples of Copts and resident foreigners to demonstrate the dissonant challenges to the national discourse that testify to its limitations, deficiencies and silences.

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
ISBN 13 : 9780789310224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cairo written by André Raymond and published by Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deluxe, oversized book is an important and definitive illustrated history of Cairo, Egypt's capital and the largest city in the Middle East and Africa. This book chronicles the region's history from before it was founded in 969 A.D. to the present. Cairo has been conquered many times and each of the reigns are presented here-from its founding father through the reigns of the dynasties of Saladin, the Ayyubites, and the Mamluks, the conquest by the Ottoman Empire, the ousting of the French in 1801 and return to Ottoman control under Muhammad Ali. Over 600 full-color photographs, reproductions, and maps illuminate the variant architecture, artifacts, ancient ruins, mosaics, maps, weapons, and much, much more. With an additional full bibliography, glossary, time line, and index, this book is destined to become the ultimate book on Cairo.

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774247293
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book The Glory of Cairo written by André Raymond and published by Amer Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George T. Scanlon
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774247019
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historians in Cairo written by George T. Scanlon and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be few if any historians working in the wide field of Middle East Studies--and certainly none in the world of Islamic art and architecture--who are unacquainted with historian and archaeologist George Scanlon. At different times from the mid-1950s to the present day he has lived, worked, and studied in Egypt. For a major part of that period, he has been associated with the American University in Cairo, where he is currently professor of Islamic art and architecture in the Department of Arabic Studies. Although diverse in subject matter, the essays collected here in his honor together present a composite picture of Cairo, and more broadly of Islamic history and culture, from early medieval times to the present day. As such they provide a fitting tribute to one of the most eminent of scholars in the field. Some contributors are one-time students of Professor Scanlon, others are colleagues who, over the years, have worked with him in Egypt, the United States, or Britain. The essays themselves reflect the wide variety of sources contributors have drawn on from international Islamic collections and archives for topics that range broadly from medieval artifacts, architecture, and society to current issues of law, literature, philosophy, and urban change.