Nezar AlSayyad. Cairo: Histories of a City

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Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN: 0674047869. 2011. 352 pages.

CONTENTS

Preface
Preamble: Reading and Writing Cairo
Road Map
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
Goveing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks
A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule
A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali Modeizing 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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