Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide - Softcover

Williams, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9774162056 ISBN 13: 9789774162053

Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9774162056
• ISBN 13: 9789774162053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316