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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451279403321

Autore

Williams Caroline (Caroline H.)

Titolo

Islamic monuments in Cairo : the practical guide / / Caroline Williams ; drawings by Jaroslaw Dobrowolski ; maps by Ola Seif ; photographs by the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo ; ; New York : , : The American University in Cairo Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-61797-278-9

1-936190-08-7

1-4175-2291-7

Edizione

[New revised edition, Sixth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

916.2160455

Soggetti

Islamic antiquities - Egypt - Cairo

Islamic architecture - Egypt - Cairo

Electronic books.

Cairo (Egypt) Guidebooks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 two hundred of the city's most interesting I