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LEADER: 01533nam a22003018a 4500
001 2010041688
003 DLC
005 20100930140808.0
008 100928s2011 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010041688
020 $a9780674047860 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $af-ua---
050 00 $aNA1583$b.A47 2011
082 00 $a720.962/16$222
100 1 $aAlSayyad, Nezar.
245 10 $aCairo :$bhistories of a city /$cNezar AlSayyad.
246 30 $aHistories of a city
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bBelknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press,$c2011.
263 $a1104
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreamble. 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.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zEgypt$zCairo$xHistory.
650 0 $aArchitecture and society$zEgypt$zCairo$xHistory.
650 0 $aCity planning$zEgypt$zCairo$xHistory.
651 0 $aCairo (Egypt)$xBuildings, structures, etc.