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

• Autore: Williams Caroline (Caroline H.)
• Pubblicazione: Cairo ; ; New York : , : The American University in Cairo Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Edizione: New revised edition, Sixth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 916.2160455
• Soggetto topico: Islamic antiquities - Egypt - Cairo; Islamic architecture - Egypt - Cairo
• Soggetto geografico: Cairo (Egypt) Guidebooks
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SeifOla; DobrowolskiJarosław
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Islamic monuments in Cairo
• ISBN: 1-61797-278-9; 1-936190-08-7; 1-4175-2291-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451279403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II