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Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848855397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Previous work with same title published in 1984 with far smaller scope and less attention to architecture.
Author: Moše Šārôn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9789652640147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789774164262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Doris Abouseif
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2007-10-24
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This history of Mamluk architecture spans three centuries and examines the monuments of the Mamluks in their social, political and urban context, during the period of their rule (1250-1517). This book displays the multiple facets of Mamluk patronage, and also provides a succinct discussion of the sixty key monuments built in Cairo by the Mamluk sultans. A richly illustrated volume with color photographs, plans and isometric drawings, this will be an essential reference work for scholars and students of the art and architecture of the Islamic world as well as art historians and historians of late medieval Islamic history.
Author: Caroline Williams
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9789774246951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Walks the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9004144420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour.
Author: Kamal Ruhayyim
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1617977810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After ten years in Paris, Galal returns to Cairo, where he finds a society in transformation. Egypt is Galal's home, but he feels he no longer belongs there. He is caught between his two identities: his Jewish mother's family are cosmopolitan business people, while his father's family are rural farmers from the Delta. Kamal Ruhayyim paints an uncompromising portrait of an older generation dictating how their children live and love. Menorahs and Minarets is the concluding part of Ruhayyim's compelling trilogy.
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789774242038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation. Known as the "Mother of the World", Cairo has one of the highest concentrations of Islamic architectural treasures in the world. This introduction to the subject begins with an analysis of the Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest in 641 through to the Ottoman Period and the reign ofMuhammad Ali at the beginning of the 19th century. From that point, the reader is given a guided tour of the evolution of Cairo's Islamic architecture and an overview of its main styles through the investigation of monuments spanning 1200 years. The book also includes a descriptive catalogue of themajor monuments from the early Islamic period through the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Bahri Mamluk, Circassian Mamluk and Ottoman periods. This concise and comprehensive study will appeal to specialists as well as beginning students and interested lay readers.
Author: Nasser O. Rabbat
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9004492488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This architectural history of the Citadel of Cairo uses indices from maps, photographs, plans of hitherto unstudied structures, and a large array of historical documents to chronologically reconstruct the Citadel's development from its foundation by Salah al-Din until it reached its most monumental form in the middle of the fourteenth century. The study analyzes the influence of Mamluk socio-political hierarchy on the conceptualization of the Citadel's spaces and forms; assesses its impact on medieval Cairo; proposes a new interpretation for the development of Mamluk royal architecture; and presents new definitions for a number of medieval architectural terms. By weaving the history of the Citadel together with the history of Cairo and the Mamluk system, this book is relevant to historians of architecture and urbanism and medieval historians.
