Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt - Couverture rigide

Sanders, Paula

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9774160959 ISBN 13 : 9789774160950

Editeur : The American University in Cairo Press, 2007

Synopsis

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: 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 Comité) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Offering fresh perspectives and keen historical analysis, this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paula Sanders is vice provost for academic affairs, dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies, and professor of history at Rice University. She is the author of Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo. She has published articles in the fields of medieval Islamic history and historiography, gender, and the history of conservation in Cairo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9774160959
• ISBN 13: 9789774160950
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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