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Making Cairo Medieval
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2005
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2005
Copyright year
2005
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0916-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5743-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
267
Product type
Edited Book
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1. Prologue: The Project of Making Cairo Medieval No access Pages 1 - 6
2. Disciplining the Eye: Perceiving Medieval Cairo No access
3. The Medieval Link: Maqrizi's Khitat and Modern Narratives of Cairo No access
4. 'Ali Mubarak's Cairo: Between the Testimony of 'Alamuddin and the Imaginary of the Khitat No access
5. Performing Cairo: Orientalism and the City of the Arabian Nights No access
6. Nineteenth-Century Images of Cairo: From the Real to the Interpretative No access
7. The Museum of What you Shall Have Been No access
8. Nineteenth-Century Cairo: A Dual City? No access
9. Modernizing Cairo: A Revisionist Narrative No access
10. Medievalization of the Old City as an Ingredient of Cairo's Modernization: Case Study of Bah Zuwayla No access
11. The Cemeteries of Cairo and the Comité de Conservation No access
