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Full-Text Articles in Arabic Studies
Lost & Found (Game Series) [Book Chapter], Owen Gottlieb
Lost & Found (Game Series) [Book Chapter], Owen Gottlieb
Articles
Description of game series for use in the classroom with best practices.
Scattered Fragments: Art, Architecture, And Archives In Revolutionary Urban Cairo, Mounira M. Makar
Scattered Fragments: Art, Architecture, And Archives In Revolutionary Urban Cairo, Mounira M. Makar
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis analyzes how revolutions impact urban Cairo and its communities, specifically within artistic, architectural and archival practice while acknowledging the central role of public spaces in giving way to such revolutionary practices. Fundamentally, this paper highlights the foundational nature of such practices in developing urban communities.
Mimar Sinan, Aleesha Hafeez
Lost & Found: New Harvest, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber
Lost & Found: New Harvest, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber
Presentations and other scholarship
Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.
Set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the 12th century, a great crossroads of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens …
Empire And Ruins In Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Adin Becker
Empire And Ruins In Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Adin Becker
Pomona Senior Theses
Modern Egypt began as a site for academic exploration and exploitation. Its tremendous archeological riches, indisputable centrality within the world of Islam, and complex multifaceted cultural makeup have piqued the interests of academics worldwide. For centuries, scholars have fantasized about “what lay beyond the water,” a land where they knew “colossal relics of the oldest-known human civilization were concentrated along the Nile in crumbling piles between two vast, usurping deserts, amidst a modern population that professed faith in Islam.”1 Absent material motives, however, Egypt long remained a land of mystery for the West, ripe for discovery and exploration. Egypt’s obscurity …
Haa 372 World Cities: Cairo, Mother Of The World, Mark Delancey
Haa 372 World Cities: Cairo, Mother Of The World, Mark Delancey
Course Website Archive
This course will examine the urban development and architectural heritage of Greater Cairo, Egypt since the reconstruction of the fortress of Babylon in the Roman period, through the establishment of Cairo itself in 969, and until the present. Cairo has always been a crossroads of cultures, set between Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. It has been home to significant Jewish, Christian and Muslim populations who have been impacted by the various ruling dynasties who have held sway there, including the Byzantines, early Islamic rulers, Tulunids, Shi'i Fatimids, and later Sunni Ayyubids, Mamluks, and Ottomans. In the 20th century, rapid …
The Tourist And The Toured: How Hostel Owners Navigate The Age Of Global Gentrification, Brianna Bilter
The Tourist And The Toured: How Hostel Owners Navigate The Age Of Global Gentrification, Brianna Bilter
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Since the mid-1990s, numerous Moroccan riads, or traditional homes built around a central courtyard, have been converted into tourist accommodations in Morocco’s old medinas. This paper seeks to analyze the impact of riad-style hostels specifically on the medinas, as hostels are relatively new to Morocco and have various benefits and consequences for the community. Though hostels are often portrayed as a sustainable form of tourist accommodation compared to multinational hotel corporations, they have an acute impact by bringing tourists into previously residential spaces and exacerbating the effects of global gentrification. My research relies on interviews with hostel owners and employees, …
Modern Mosques Of Malaysia, Wael A. Yousef
Modern Mosques Of Malaysia, Wael A. Yousef
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Traditional Architecture Of Asir Region- Saudi Arabia The Architecture Of Rujal Village As A Case Study Analytical Study, Manal Ibrahim
Traditional Architecture Of Asir Region- Saudi Arabia The Architecture Of Rujal Village As A Case Study Analytical Study, Manal Ibrahim
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Continuity Within Islamic Art And Architecture: Hassan Fathy As A Modern Catalyst, Ahmad Hamid
Continuity Within Islamic Art And Architecture: Hassan Fathy As A Modern Catalyst, Ahmad Hamid
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
In The Mind Of The Beholder, Sara Sharaf
In The Mind Of The Beholder, Sara Sharaf
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Waqf In Relation To Maintenance And Repair: The Medieval Sources And Their Uses For Contemporary Practices, Dina Ishak Bakhoum
The Waqf In Relation To Maintenance And Repair: The Medieval Sources And Their Uses For Contemporary Practices, Dina Ishak Bakhoum
Archived Theses and Dissertations
The buildings of the different Islamic dynasties in Egypt with their great cultural and aesthetic significance have survived and remained functional despite numerous natural as well as man-made disasters. This was possible not only because of the high structural engineering knowledge and construction techniques with which they were built, but also due to the existence of the waqf system, which was not merely a system of endowments for charitable and pious causes, such as constructing mosques and schools but also a system concerned with maintenance and repair. Its main aim was the upkeep of the charitable act and the benefit …
The Living Units In Cairene Houses In The Ottoman Period: Towards A New Understanding Of Cairene Domestic Architecture, Ahmed Maher Hassaballah
The Living Units In Cairene Houses In The Ottoman Period: Towards A New Understanding Of Cairene Domestic Architecture, Ahmed Maher Hassaballah
Archived Theses and Dissertations
Cairene domestic architecture comprises a variety of housing types, responding to the needs of different socioeconomic classes of society. Of these types, two are studied in detail herein, namely, palaces and mansions of the grandees and middle-class houses. As suggested by Hanna, the latter were divided into separate unequal living units. The study in hand investigates the existence of similar living units in the palaces and mansions'. This is accomplished through analyzing living units in some middle-class houses to determine their structure, types and organization. These characteristics are used to define similar units in palaces and mansions.
Some relevant documents …
Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser
Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser
Archived Theses and Dissertations
Since Quranic inscriptions dominate the epigraphic decoration of Cairene Islamic religious monuments, the target of this thesis has been to investigate the Quranic inscriptions of some selected religious monuments of each main era of the Islamic history of Cairo: Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman. The questions examined are the following: what was the frequency of utilizing Quranic inscriptions compared to other types of inscriptions? What are the common architectural locations of Quranic quotations compared to other types of inscriptions? Regardless of the form of the script, whether naskhi or kufic, what were the common stylistic visual forms of inscriptions on religious …
Early Ottoman Architecture In Cairo, Seif Eldin Mamdouh El Rashidi
Early Ottoman Architecture In Cairo, Seif Eldin Mamdouh El Rashidi
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Hispano-Umayyad Caliphal Iconography, Maria Isabel Varas Cruz
Hispano-Umayyad Caliphal Iconography, Maria Isabel Varas Cruz
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Industrial Monuments In The Holy Land, Adham Mahmoud Fahmy
Industrial Monuments In The Holy Land, Adham Mahmoud Fahmy
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Development Of A Cairene Open Space, Sherif Hazem Mansour
The Development Of A Cairene Open Space, Sherif Hazem Mansour
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Islamic Cairene Architecture In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century, Tarek Mohamed Refaat Sakr
Islamic Cairene Architecture In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century, Tarek Mohamed Refaat Sakr
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Urban Development Of The ʻAbdīN Area, Ca. 1100-1900, Ashraf Mohamed Tawakol
The Urban Development Of The ʻAbdīN Area, Ca. 1100-1900, Ashraf Mohamed Tawakol
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Khanqah Of Sultan Inal In The Northern Cemetery In Cairo, Joyce Pressey Tovell
The Khanqah Of Sultan Inal In The Northern Cemetery In Cairo, Joyce Pressey Tovell
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Circassian Mamluk Monumental Entrances Of Cairo, Daad H Abdel Razik
The Circassian Mamluk Monumental Entrances Of Cairo, Daad H Abdel Razik
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Al-Madrasa Al-Firdaus In Aleppo: A Chef-D'Oeuvre Of Ayyubid Architecture, Rana Jalabi-Holdijk
Al-Madrasa Al-Firdaus In Aleppo: A Chef-D'Oeuvre Of Ayyubid Architecture, Rana Jalabi-Holdijk
Archived Theses and Dissertations
The Syrian Ayyubid architecture of the thirteenth century reflects outstanding architectonic qualities of harmony and proportion. This study intends to demonstrate how the Madrasa al-Firdaus is a chef-d'oeuvre of this period.
Wikalas Of Bulaq: The Relation Between Commerce, Buidings And Topography, Nelly Hanna
Wikalas Of Bulaq: The Relation Between Commerce, Buidings And Topography, Nelly Hanna
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Mosque Of Aṣlam Al-Silāḥdār, Chahinda Fahmi Karim
The Mosque Of Aṣlam Al-Silāḥdār, Chahinda Fahmi Karim
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.