The Architecture of Cairo

Lecture Notes

Part 1 - Beginnings - History, Geography, and Religion
	1 - Egypt from Alexander to the Islamic Conquest
	2 - Foundation of al-Fustat
	3 - Abbasids and Tulunids (8th and 9th Century)
Part 2 - Age of the Caliphate - The Fatimids
	4 - The Foundation of Fatimid al-Qahira
	5 - Fatimid Mosques in Cairo
	6 - Late Fatimid Period (1074-1171)
Part 3 - Rise to Prominence - Ayyubids and Bahri Mamluks
	7 - The Ayyubid Period (1171-1250) - The City and the Citadel
	8 - Transforming the Religious Landscape of Cairo in the Ayyubid Period
	9 - Early Mamluk Period (1250-90)
	10 - The Reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (1293-1341)
	11 - The Late Bahri Period (1341-82)
	12 - The Development of Residential Architecture in Bahri Cairo
Part 4 - Afterglow of Empire - Burji Mamluks and Ottomans
	13 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the City
	14 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the Northern Qarafa
	15 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo - The Age of the Governors
	16 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo - The Age of the Mamluk Beys
Part 5 - Modernization and After - Muhammad ‘Ali to the Present
	17 - Cairo From Napoleon to Muhammad `Ali
	18 - The Modernization of Cairo
	19 - Competing Neo Styles in the Early Twentieth Century
	20 - Historicism in Twentieth-Century Cairo