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An edition of Cairo (2011)

Cairo

histories of a city

1st ed.

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Cairo: Histories of a City
2013, Harvard University Press
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Cover of: Cairo
Cairo
2011, Harvard University Press
in English
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Cairo: histories of a city
2011, Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Other Titles
Histories of a city

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720.962/16
Library of Congress
NA1583 .A47 2011, NA1583.A47 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
352

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24479927M
Internet Archive
cairohistoriesci00alsa
ISBN 13
9780674047860
LCCN
2010041688
OCLC/WorldCat
667874305

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