Cairo of the Mamluks : a history of the architecture and its culture

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

ISBN 10: 9774160770 / ISBN 13: 9789774160776

Editore: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008

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xix, 359 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 30 cm.

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• Titolo: Cairo of the Mamluks : a history of the architecture and its culture
• Editore: The American University in Cairo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9774160770
• ISBN 13: 9789774160776
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Islam

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In Egypt, where civilizations have manifested themselves through awe-inspiring structures since antiquity, 'a thousand minarets' reveal the impact of Islamic civilization and urban aesthetics. The Minarets of Cairo offers an accessible and vivid insight into the religious, historical, and architectural significance of the minaret in Cairo from the Arab conquest, through the Abbasid, Fatimid, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods. Students and scholars will welcome historian and art historian Doris Behrens-Abouseif's excellent new research and analysis as well as over one hundred illustrated entries for individual minarets, brought to life by Nicholas Warner's masterly architectural drawings and reconstructions. With nearly three hundred illustrations, this beautiful book provides depth and color, displaying to full effect historic Cairo's most impressive monuments.