Making Cairo medieval / edited by Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman, Nasser Rabbat. - 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, 1 map. - Transnational perspectives on space and place .

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

Prologue : the project of making Cairo medieval / Disciplining the eye : perceiving medieval Cairo / The medieval link : Maqrizi's Khitat and modern narratives of Cairo / 'Ali Mubarak's Cairo : between the testimony of 'Alamuddin and the imaginary of the Khitat / Performing Cairo : Orientalism and the city of the Arabian nights / Nineteenth-century images of Cairo : from the real to the interpretative / The museum of what you shall have been / Nineteenth-century Cairo : a dual city? / Modernizing Cairo : a revisionist narrative / Medievalization of the old city as an ingredient of Cairo's modernization : case study of Bab Zuwayla / The cemeteries of Cairo and the Comite de Conservation / Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman and Nasser Rabbat -- Irene A. Bierman -- Nasser Rabbat -- Nezar AlSayyad -- Derek Gregory -- Caroline Williams -- Donald Preziosi -- Heba Farouk Ahmed -- Khaled Fahmy -- Nairy Hampikian -- May al-Ibrashy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

9780739157435 (e-book)


Architecture--History--Egypt--Cairo--19th century.
City planning--History--Egypt--Cairo--19th century.
Islamic architecture--Egypt--Cairo.


Cairo (Egypt)--Buildings, structures, etc.


Electronic books.

NA1583 / .M35 2005

720/.962/1609034