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Cairo: histories of a city
2011, Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press
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0674047869 9780674047860
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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.
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