Cairo histories of a city /

Main Author: AlSayyad, Nezar.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10498099
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300 |a xix, 325 p. :  |b ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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