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A comprehensive overview of Cairo's most famous monuments
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''For the interested visitor to Egypt, these are not books that you can slip into your pocket to take on your holiday but ones to read on the return.'' Venetia Porter, The Art Newspaper
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Cairo of the Mamluks was "a city beyond imagination", wrote the Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun. The Mamluk sultans originated as a slave-based caste who took advantage of the mid-13th century power vacuum to establish themselves as rulers. They designed their capital to be the heart of the Muslim world. It became the focus of their enormous patronage of art and architecture, the stage for their ceremonial rituals, and a memorial to their achievements. This history of Mamluk architecture examines the monuments of the Mamluks in their social, political and urban context during the period of their rule between 1250-1517. The book displays the multiple facets of Mamluk patronage, and also provides a succint discussion of sixty monuments built in Cairo by the Mamluk sultans. This is a richly illustrated volume with colour photographs, plans and isometric drawings. It will form 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.
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- PublisherI.B. Tauris
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 184511549X
- ISBN 13 9781845115494
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages384
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Size: 4to 9 3/4 - 12". xx + 359pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine cocked. Dust Jacket slightly creased with a couple of tears. Edges browned slightly. Corners slightly bumped. Profusely illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-5 kilos. Category: Architecture; Egypt; Medieval 10th to 15thc; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN/EAN: 9781845115494. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 58079. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Seller Inventory # 58079
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Fine. Hardcover book , First edition in dustjacket, 358 pages with many illustrations in cpolour. A History of the Architecture and Culture of Cairo under the Mamluks. A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available. Heavy book may require extra shipping charges. Pictures available. Seller Inventory # 36172
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xix, 359 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 30 cm. light water staining to top edges leading some pages to become crinkled (see photos), otherwise Fine. Seller Inventory # 3cg24
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good in a Fair-to-Good dust jacket; Hardcover; The dust jacket is shelfworn with a lot of heavy scratches, but is otherwise good and intact with no large tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 5.6 lbs (Heavy); Blue dust jacket with photo of temples, and title in white lettering; 2008, I.B.Tauris Publishing; 400 pages; "Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture," by Doris Behrens-Abouseif. Seller Inventory # SKU-1111AA03810023
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