Creating medieval Cairo : empire, religion, and architectural preservation in nineteenth-century Egypt /

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Author / Creator:Sanders, Paula.
Imprint:Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2008.
Description:xv, 216 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6686350
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ISBN:9774160959
9789774160950
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-206) and index.
Summary:"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: namely, 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 Comiť) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Sanders explores such varied topics as the British experience in India, the Egyptian debate over religious reform, and the influence of The Thousand and One Nights on European notions of the medieval Arab city ... this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo." http://books.google.com/books?id=BFy5Drdpp8kC.

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