Making Cairo Medieval

Name: Making Cairo Medieval
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ISBN: 9780739109168

ISBN-10: 0739109162

ISBN-13: 9780739109168

Edition: 2005

Authors: Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman, Nasser Rabbat, Heba Farouk Ahmed, Khaled Fahmy

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During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed one of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a medieval Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual city--physically and psychically split between East/West and modern/medieval--the contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 3/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History, and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.




Prologue : the project of making Cairo medieval




Disciplining the eye : perceiving medieval Cairo




The medieval link : Maqrizi's Khitat and modern narratives of Cairo




'Ali Mubarak's Cairo : between the testimony of 'Alamuddin and the imaginary of the Khitat




Performing Cairo : Orientalism and the city of the Arabian nights




Nineteenth-century images of Cairo : from the real to the interpretative




The museum of what you shall have been




Nineteenth-century Cairo : a dual city?




Modernizing Cairo : a revisionist narrative




Medievalization of the old city as an ingredient of Cairo's modernization : case study of Bab Zuwayla




The cemeteries of Cairo and the Comite de Conservation