Cairo
Subtitle: histories of a city
By: Nezar AlSayyad
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard Universitry Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780674047860
Other titles: Histories of a city
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preamble. Reading and writing Cairo; title: Memphis : the first Cairo; title: From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave; title: Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam; title: Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town; title: Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree; title: The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans; title: Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks; title: A provincial capital under Ottoman rule; title: A changing city : from Napoleon to  Muhammad Ali; title: Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old: the city of the Khedive; title: The Arab republic and the city of Nasser; title: Escaping the present, consuming the past.