- Preface
- Preamble: Reading and Writing Cairo
- Road Map
- 1. Memphis: The First Cairo
- 2. From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave
- 3. Fustat-Misr: The City of Arab Islam
- 4. Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town
- 5. Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree
- 6. The Bahri Mamluks: The City of the Slave Sultans
- 7. Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks
- 8. A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule
- 9. A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali
- 10. Modernizing the New, Medievalizing the Old: The City of the Khedive
- 11. The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser
- 12. Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past
- Appendix: Notes on Transliteration and Dates
- Glossary
- Endnotes
- Figures and Credits
- Index
Cairo
Histories of a City
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$25.00 • £21.95 • €22.95
ISBN 9780674072459
Publication Date: 05/13/2013
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