4.615 | Spring 2002 | Undergraduate

The Architecture of Cairo

Readings

Required Texts

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Islamic Architecture of Cairo: An Introduction. Leiden: Brill, 1989. ISBN: 9774242033.

Raymond, Andre. Cairo. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0674003160.

Williams, Caroline. Islamic Monuments in Cairo: A Practical Guide. 4th ed. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1993. ISBN: 9774246950.

Suggested Texts

Rodenbeck, Max. Cairo: The City Victorious. New York: Knopf, 1999. ISBN: 0679446516.

Abu-Lughod, Janet. Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious. Princeton, 1971. ISBN: 0691030855.

Creswell, K. A. C. Muslim Architecture of Egypt. 2 vols. Oxford, 1959. ISBN: 0878171754.

Briggs, Martin. Muhammadan Architecture in Egypt and Palestine. New York, reprint 1974. ISBN: 0306705907.

General Bibliography

Mubarak, `Ali Pasha. al-Khitat al-Tawfiqiyya al-Jadida. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub, 1969.

Marsot, Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid. A Short History of Modern Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

———. Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad `Ali. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Raymond, Andre. Le Caire des Janissaires: L’apogee de la ville ottomane sous `Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1995.

———. Le Caire. Paris: Fayard, 1993.

———. The Great Arab Cities in the 16th-18th Centuries. New York: New York University Press, 1984.

Rhone, Arthur. L’Egypte a Petites Journees. Paris, 1910.

Petry, Carl F. The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Williams, Caroline. Islamic Monuments in Cairo: A Practical Guide. Cairo: AUC Press, 1993.

Gillispie, Charles Coulston, and Michael Dewachter, eds. Monuments of Egypt: the Napoleonic Edition: the Complete Archaelogical Plates from la Description de l’Egypte. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Kessler, Christel. The Carved Masonry Domes of Medieval Cairo. Cairo: American University Press, 1976.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Azbakiyya and its Environs: From Azbak to Ismail (1476-1879). Cairo: IFAO, 1985.

———. Egypt’s Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo, 16th and 17th Centuries. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1994.

———. Islamic Architecture of Cairo: An Introduction. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989.

———. The Minarets of Cairo. Cairo: AUC Press, 1985.

Pauty, Edmond. Les palais et maisons d’epoque musulmane au Caire. Cairo: IFAO, 1932.

Lane, Edward William. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians Written in Egypt During the Years 1833-1835. London: East-West Publications, 1978.

———. Cairo Fifty Years Ago. Edited by S. Lane-Poole. London: John Murray, 1896.

Lambert, Edwige, and Isabelle Vinatier, eds. Autrement Le Caire. Feb 1985.

Migeon, Gaston. Le Caire, le Nil et Memphis. Paris: Librairie Renouard, 1928.

Wiet, Gaston. Cairo: City of Art and Commerce. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1983.

———. Mohammed Ali et les beaux-arts. Cairo: Dar al-Maaref, 1949.

Rabie, Hassanein. The Financial System of Egypt A.H. 564-741 A.D. London: Oxford University Press, 1972, pp. 1169-1341.

Devonshire, Henriette R. L. Rambles in Cairo. Cairo: R. Schindler, 1931.

Lapidus, Ira. Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Berque, Jacques. Egypt: Imperialism & Revolution. Edited and translated by Jean Stewart. London: Faber & Faber, 1972.

Revault, Jacques, ed. Palais et maisons du Caire, I- epoque mamelouke. Paris: CNRS, 1982.

Abu-Lughod, Janet. Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Creswell, K. A. C. Muslim Architecture of Egypt. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.

HautecOur, Louis, and Gaston Wiet. Les mosquees du Caire. Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1932.

Salmon, M. Georges. Etudes sur la topographie du Caire, la Kal`at al-Kabch et la Birkat al-Fil. Cairo: IFAO, 1902.

El-Gawhary, Mahmoud. Ex-Royal Palaces in Egypt from Muhammad Aly to Farouk. Cairo: Dar al-Maaref, 1954.

Briggs, Martin. Muhammadan Architecture in Egypt and Palestine. New York: Capo, reprint 1974.

Herz, Max. La mosquee du sultan Hassan au Caire. Cairo: Comite de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe, 1899.

Herz, Max. La mosquee el-Rifai au Caire. Milan: H. Allegretti, 1912.

Berchem, Max Van. Materiaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. Memoires publies par les Membres de la Mission Archeologique Francaise au Caire. 19 (1-4). Paris: Librairie Leroux, 1894-1903.

Volait, Mercedes. L’architecture moderne en Egypte et la revue al-`Imara (1939-1959). Cairo: CEDEJ, 1988.

Meinecke, Michael. Die Mamlukische Architektur in Agypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 923/1517). Gluckstadt: Verlag J. J. Augustin GMBH, 1992.

Amin, Muhammad M. Al-Awqaf wa-l-Hayyat al-Ijtima`iyya fi-Misr (The Waqfs and Social Life in Egypt 684-923 A.H./ 1250-1517 A.D.). Cairo: Dar al-Nahda al-`Arabiyya, 1980.

Rabbat, Nasser. The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995.

Hanna, Nelly. An Urban History of Bulaq in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods. Le Caire: Institut francais d’archeologie orientale, 1983.

———. Habiter au Caire, la maison moyenne et ses habitants aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles. Cairo: Institut francais d’archeologie orientale, 1991.

Vatikiotis, Panayiotis J. The History of Modern Egypt from Muhammad Ali to Mubarak. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Coste, Pascal-Xavier. Architecture Arabe ou Monuments du Kaire mesures et dessines de 1818 a 1826. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1839.

Anderson, Robert, and Ibrahim Fawzi, eds. Egypt Revealed: Scenes from Napoleon’s Description de l’Egypte. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1987.

Hay, Robert. Illustrations of Cairo. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1840.

Ilbert, Robert. Heliopolis, Le Caire, 1905-1922, genese d’une ville. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1981.

Lane-Poole, Stanley. The Story of Cairo. Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1902, reprint 1971.

Denoix, Sylvie. Decrire le Caire Fustat-Misr d’apres Ibn Duqmaq et Maqrizi: l’histoire d’un partie de la ville du Caire d’apres deux historiens egyptiens des XIVe-XVe siecles. Cairo: Institut francais d’archeologie orientale du Caire, 1992.

Sakr, Tarek. Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Architecture in Cairo. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1992.

Mitchell, Timothy. Colonizing Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Haarmann, Ulrich. Quellenstudien zur fruhen Mamlukenzeit. Freiburg: D. Robischon, 1969.

Kubiak, Wladyslaw. Al-Fustat, Its Foundation and Early Urban Development. Cairo: American University Press, 1987.

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