Islamic Monuments in Cairo
The Practical Guide
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2008
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Revised edition
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-977-416-205-3 (ISBN)
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-977-416-205-3 (ISBN)
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Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. This guide features around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments.
This is a new edition of the popular guide to Cairo's monuments. Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor.This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments such as the Amir Taz Palace and the Sitt Wasila House.
This is a new edition of the popular guide to Cairo's monuments. Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor.This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments such as the Amir Taz Palace and the Sitt Wasila House.
CAROLINE WILLIAMS, with graduate degrees in Middle Eastern history from Harvard and Islamic art and architecture from the American University in Cairo, has been a frequent resident/visitor of Cairo since 1961.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 29 colour photographs, 24 illustrations, 16 maps |
| Verlagsort | Cairo |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Afrika ► Ägypten |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 977-416-205-6 / 9774162056 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-977-416-205-3 / 9789774162053 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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