Cairo histories of a city / Nezar AlSayyad.

Author/creator AlSayyad, Nezar
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press,
Descriptionxix, 325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
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Portion of title Histories of a city
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.
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LCCN 2010041688
ISBN9780674047860 (hbk. : alk. paper) :
ISBN0674047869 (hbk. : alk. paper)