Creating Medieval Cairo
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Making Cairo Medieval
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Author : Nezar AlSayyad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Making Cairo Medieval written by Nezar AlSayyad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once 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 perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.
Creating Medieval Cairo
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Author : Paula Sanders
language : en
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Creating Medieval Cairo written by Paula Sanders and has been published by I.B.Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Architecture categories.
This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo’s architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comité) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Offering fresh perspectives and keen historical analysis, this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo.
Creating Medieval Cairo
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Author : Emerson Holt
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-05
Creating Medieval Cairo written by Emerson Holt and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05 with categories.
This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Emerson Holt shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Creating Medieval Cairo Empire Religion And Archtectural Preservation In Nineteenth Century Egypt
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Author : Paula Sanders
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Creating Medieval Cairo Empire Religion And Archtectural Preservation In Nineteenth Century Egypt written by Paula Sanders and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Architecture For The Dead Cairo S Medieval Necropolis
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Author : Galila El Kadi
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2007
Architecture For The Dead Cairo S Medieval Necropolis written by Galila El Kadi and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
The great medieval necropolis of Cairo, comprising two main areas that together stretch twelve kilometers from north to south, constitutes a major feature of the city's urban landscape. With monumental and smaller-scale mausolea dating from all eras since early medieval times, and boasting some of the finest examples of Mamluk architecture not just in the city but in the region, the necropolis is an unparalleled--and until now largely undocumented--architectural treasure trove. In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest--but elaborately decorated--wooden structures. The book also documents the modern settlement of the necropolis by families creating a space for the living in and among the tombs and architecture for the dead.
Ritual Politics And The City In Fatimid Cairo
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Author : Paula Sanders
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1994-03-08
Ritual Politics And The City In Fatimid Cairo written by Paula Sanders and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-03-08 with History categories.
Table of Contents Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo by Sanders, Paula Terms of Use Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Short Titles Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction Fatimid History: An Overview Approaching Fatimid Rituals Chapter 2 The Ceremonial Idiom Protocols of Rank Symbols of Authority The Caliph as Center Chapter 3 The Ritual City The Beginnings of the Ritual City The Elaboration of the Ritual City under al-'Aziz The Integration of Fustat into the Ritual City The Restoration of al-Amir and the Reinterpretation of the Ritual City Chapter 4 Politics, Power, and Administration: The New Year's Ceremony The Model Procession: Ibn al-Tuwayr's Description of the New Year The Negotiation of Power in the New Year's Procession Chapter 5 The Urban River The Highwayman of Egypt: Agriculture and Irrigation The Ceremony to Cut the Canal Late Fatimid Nile Ceremonies Perfuming the Nilometer Dating the Nilometer Ceremony The Urban River Chapter 6 Ceremonial as Polemic The Event at Ghadir Khumm and Its Importance in Isma'ili Thought Popular Celebrations of the Festival of Ghadir The Festival of Ghadir and the Ritual Lingua Franca Ceremonial as Polemic Chapter 7 Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Maps Index Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service. Summary Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo by Sanders, Paula Terms of use "This book provides an understanding of the complexities of political legitimacy in Islamic dynasties by examining Fatimid political culture in Egypt reconstructed from court rituals. The author approaches ritual as a dynamic process through which claims to political and religious authority in Islamic societies was articulated, and in which complex negotiations of power have taken place."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service.
Unfinished Places The Politics Of Re Making Cairo S Old Quarters
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Author : Gehan Selim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Unfinished Places The Politics Of Re Making Cairo S Old Quarters written by Gehan Selim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Architecture categories.
The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo’s urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of postcolonial urbanism by linking the state’s political ideologies and systems of governance with methods of spatial representations that aimed to transform the urban realm in Cairo. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the study draws on planning, history and politics to develop a distinctive account of postcolonial planning in Cairo following Egypt’s 1952 revolution. The book widely connects the ideological role of a different type of politicised urbanism practised during the days of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak and the overarching policies, institutions and attitudes involved in the visions for (re) building a new nation in Egypt. By examining the notion of remaking urban spaces, the study interprets the ambitions and powers of state policies for improving the spatial qualities of Cairo’s old districts since the early 20th century. These acts are situated in their spatial, political and historical contexts of Cairo’s heterogeneous old quarters and urban spaces particularly the remaking of one of the city’s older quarts named Bulaq Abul Ela established during the Ottoman rule in the thirteenth century. It therefore writes, in a chronological sequence, a narrative through time and space connecting various layers of historical and contemporary political phases for remaking Bulaq. The endeavor is to explain this process from a spatial perspective in terms of the implications and consequences not only on places, but also on the people’s everyday practices. By deeply investigating the problems and consequences; the strengths and weaknesses; and the state’s reliability to achieve the remaking objectives, the book reveals evidence that shifting forms of governance had anchored planning practices into a narrow path of creativity and responsive planning.
Muqarnas Volume 25
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Author : Gülru Necipoglu
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-03-31
Muqarnas Volume 25 written by Gülru Necipoglu and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-31 with Art categories.
Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Building Histories
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Author : Mrinalini Rajagopalan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-01
Building Histories written by Mrinalini Rajagopalan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Architecture categories.
Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.
A Handbook Of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship On The Ancient And Medieval Periods
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Author : Amar S. Baadj
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-30
A Handbook Of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship On The Ancient And Medieval Periods written by Amar S. Baadj and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with History categories.
A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. دليل الدراسات العربية الحديثة حول العصور القديمة والوسيطة يحتوي هذا الكتاب على 61 بحثا حول الدراسات الأكاديمية المتعلّقة بتاريخ العصور القديمة والوسيطة في العالم العربي، وتغطي هذه الأبحاث تخصصات علمية متنوعة منها الدراسات المسمارية والدراسات المملوكية، إضافةً إلى بعض المدارس التاريخية العربية المعاصرة. الكتاب فريد من نوعه والأول في كافة اللغات، ويُشكّل مصدرا هاما للباحثين والطلبة في دراسات الشرق الأدنى القديم وشمال إفريقيا في العصور القديمة والدراسات الكلاسيكية والبيزنطية والتاريخ الإسلامي الوسيط، وكذلك للمهتمين بعلمي التاريخ والآثار في الدول العربية. Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan.