LEADER 03812nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910457776003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06079-2 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674060791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300980 035 $a(DE-B1597)178139 035 $a(OCoLC)754842179 035 $a(OCoLC)840437827 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674060791 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300980 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10498099 035 $a(OCoLC)923117559 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048084 100 $a20100928d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCairo$b[electronic resource] $ehistories of a city /$fNezar AlSayyad 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2011 215 $axix, 325 p. $cill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 311 $a0-674-07245-6 311 $a0-674-04786-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index. 327 $aPreamble : reading and writing Cairo -- Memphis : the first Cairo -- From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave -- Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam -- Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town -- Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree -- The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans -- Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks -- A provincial capital under Ottoman rule -- A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali -- Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old : the city of the Khedive -- The Arab republic and the city of Nasser -- Escaping the present, consuming the past. 330 $aFrom its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city's history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form.In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo's built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order-a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt's various rulers and regimes-from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond-have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today. 606 $aArchitecture$zEgypt$zCairo$xHistory 606 $aArchitecture and society$zEgypt$zCairo$xHistory 606 $aCity planning$zEgypt$zCairo$xHistory 607 $aCairo (Egypt)$xBuildings, structures, etc 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArchitecture$xHistory. 615 0$aArchitecture and society$xHistory. 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory. 676 $a720.962/16 700 $aAlSayyad$b Nezar$0643844 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457776003321 996 $aCairo$92457433 997 $aUNINA