TY  - BOOK
AU  - AlSayyad,Nezar
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Cairo: histories of a city 
AV  - NA1583 .A47 2011eb
U1  - 720.962/16 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - City planning
KW  - Cairo (Egypt)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -