Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide (Updated 7th Edition)

Williams, Caroline

ISBN 10: 9774168550 / ISBN 13: 9789774168550

Editore: I.B.Tauris|American University of Cairo Press, 2018

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A new, fully revised edition of this perennially popular guide to Cairo s Islamic monumentsCairo s Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo s sp.

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• Titolo: Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide (Updated 7th Edition)
• Editore: I.B.Tauris|American University of Cairo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9774168550
• ISBN 13: 9789774168550
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Cairo’s Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo’s spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists, then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor.This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around more than two hundred of the city’s most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments.

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Caroline Williams, with graduate degrees in Middle Eastern history from Harvard and Islamic art and architecture from the American University in Cairo, has been a frequent resident/visitor of Cairo since 1961.

Caroline Williams, with graduate degrees in Middle Eastern history from Harvard and Islamic art and architecture from the American University in Cairo, has been a frequent resident of, visitor to, Cairo since 1961.