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Making Cairo medieval / edited by Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman, Nasser Rabbat.

Contributor(s): AlSayyad, Nezar | Bierman, Irene A | Rabbat, Nasser OSeries: Transnational perspectives on space and placePublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2005]Copyright date: �2005Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, 1 mapContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: EBC1565252ISBN: 9780739157435 (e-book)Subject(s): Architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 19th century | City planning -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 19th century | Islamic architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo | Cairo (Egypt) -- Buildings, structures, etcGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Cairo medieval.DDC classification: 720/.962/1609034 LOC classification: NA1583 | .M35 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Prologue : the project of making Cairo medieval / Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman and Nasser Rabbat -- Disciplining the eye : perceiving medieval Cairo / Irene A. Bierman -- The medieval link : Maqrizi's Khitat and modern narratives of Cairo / Nasser Rabbat -- 'Ali Mubarak's Cairo : between the testimony of 'Alamuddin and the imaginary of the Khitat / Nezar AlSayyad -- Performing Cairo : Orientalism and the city of the Arabian nights / Derek Gregory -- Nineteenth-century images of Cairo : from the real to the interpretative / Caroline Williams -- The museum of what you shall have been / Donald Preziosi -- Nineteenth-century Cairo : a dual city? / Heba Farouk Ahmed -- Modernizing Cairo : a revisionist narrative / Khaled Fahmy -- Medievalization of the old city as an ingredient of Cairo's modernization : case study of Bab Zuwayla / Nairy Hampikian -- The cemeteries of Cairo and the Comite de Conservation / May al-Ibrashy.

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During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a 'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual city--physically and psychically split between East/West and modern/medieval--the contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-259) and index.

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.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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