Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Architecture in Cairo

Sakr, Tarek Mohamed Refaat

ISBN 10: 9774243005 / ISBN 13: 9789774243004

Editore: American University Press (1993), Cairo, 1993

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23x16cm, vii,90,(106)pp, Contains 106pp containing 195 photo illustrations. Contents: The Evolution of Islamic Architecture in Cairo; The 19th Century;The 20th Century; Islamic Revival Architecture; Modernized Islamic Style; Eclecticism; 20th-Century Islamic Style; Baroque Islamic Style (Heliopolis); Miscellaneous Examples. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.

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• Titolo: Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Architecture in Cairo
• Editore: American University Press (1993), Cairo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 9774243005
• ISBN 13: 9789774243004
• Rilegatura: orig.boards
• Disegnatore: 106pp photoplates
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Modern Egypt

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Riassunto

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a reaction in Cairo against the occidentalizing architectural trends which had prevailed in the nineteenth century and interrupted the natural evolution of Islamic architecture. This new study seeks to define the different trends of the Islamic Revival period and discuss their motivation, progress, and achievements.
After a survey of the stylistic evolution and foreign influences in Cairene architecture until the end of the eighteenth century and a brief account of the nineteenth-century background to the Islamic Revival period, the author discusses the impact of architectural education, nationalism, and parallel styles on Islamic Revival architecture. Then, through the examples of a number of Cairo facades, he proposes for the first time a definition of five recognizable Islamic Revival styles: Neo-Islamic Revival, Modernized Islamic, Eclectic, Twentieth-Century Islamic, and Baroque Islamic (Heliopolis).