4.615 | Spring 2002 | Undergraduate

The Architecture of Cairo

Lecture Notes

Part 1 - Beginnings - History, Geography, and Religion

 

1 - Egypt from Alexander to the Islamic Conquest
[Lec 2: al-Fustat.](/courses/4-615-the-architecture-of-cairo-spring-2002/pages/lecture-notes/lec2) 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

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