Cairo

André Raymond

Translated by Willard Wood

  • 2002 Lewis Galantière Prize, Sponsored by the American Translators Association

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I. Foundations (642-1250)

1. Fustat, the First Capital

2. Cairo, Fatimid City

3. Cairo under the Ayyubids

II. Medieval Cairo (1250-1517)

4. The Mamluks

5. The High Point of Mamluk Cairo (1250-1348)

6. The Great Crisis (1348-1412)

7. Maqrizi's Cairo

8. The End of an Era (1412-1517)

III. The Traditional City (1517-1798)

9. A New Political System

10. Urban Society

11. Expansion under the Ottomans

12. City Administration and Daily Life

13. Spheres of Activity

IV. Contemporary Cairo (1798-1992)

14. A Slow Awakening (1798-1863)

15. The Dream of Westernization (1863-1936)

16. The Nightmares of Growth (1936-1992)

Retrospective

Chronology

Glossary

Abbreviations

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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André Raymond was Director of the French Institute for Arab Studies, in Damascus, and of the Institute for Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic World, in Aix-en-Provence. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Provence and the author of numerous books, including The Great Arab Cities in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: An Introduction.