Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and His Sabil

Name: Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and His Sabil
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ISBN: 9789774248313

ISBN-10: 9774248317

ISBN-13: 9789774248313

Edition: N/A

Authors: Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Khaled Fahmy

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Muhammad Ali Pasha, who ruled Egypt from 1805 to 1848, was a dynamic and far-sighted leader and is credited by many with the modernization of the country. When his son Tusun died of plague in 1816, the grief-stricken father commemorated him with a sabil (a public cistern and water dispenser) of an architectural and decorative style entirely new to Egypt. The sabil fell into disuse and disrepair in the twentieth century, but after a painstaking conservation program lasting six years, it is once again an architectural jewel, now open to the public. This guide to the spectacular and important sabil in the heart of historic Cairo explains why and how it was constructed, how it was used, and how…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 64
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Agnieszka Dobrowolska is a conservation architect and the author of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and His Sabil (with Khaled Fahmy, AUC Press, 2004) and The Building Crafts of Cairo (AUC Press, 2005). Jaroslaw Dobrowolski is an architect and the author of The Living Stones of Cairo (AUC Press, 2001). A husband-and-wife team, they also authored Heliopolis: Rebirth of the City of the Sun (AUC Press, 2006).