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Marginality As Lens: Abū Ḥāmid Al-Qudsī’S Writings And Mamluk Urbanism, Moaaz Lafi
Marginality As Lens: Abū Ḥāmid Al-Qudsī’S Writings And Mamluk Urbanism, Moaaz Lafi
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This thesis takes the life and works of Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī (also known as al-Maqdisī), a Shāfiʿī jurist and Cairene historian who died in the late ninth/fifteenth century, as a point of entry into a central question: how was knowledge about the city produced in Mamluk Cairo? Addressing this question requires engagement with the multiple contexts, political, social, and religious, that shaped and conditioned the production of knowledge in that period. Moreover, a critical engagement with the author’s own biography, through a careful reading of biographical dictionaries and historical chronicles, is essential for uncovering further dimensions of how such knowledge …
Ottoman Wikālas In Cairo: Islamic Architecture Beyond The Mosque, Yumna Moussa
Ottoman Wikālas In Cairo: Islamic Architecture Beyond The Mosque, Yumna Moussa
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This thesis traces one of the largest architectural typologies in Cairo: the wikāla, a type of urban caravanserai unique to Egypt. Estimated to have reached more than five hundred buildings by the 18th century, the wikāla was the building of choice for most patrons in Ottoman Cairo. This study initially investigates the evolution of commercial architecture within the Islamic city. It then explores the defining architectural features of Cairene wikālas built between the 16th and 18th centuries—their plans, decorative/iconographic programs, and urban distribution—based on waqfiyyas, chronicles, travelers’ accounts, and photographic archives. Since many of …
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.
Haa 372 World Cities: Cairo, Mother Of The World, Mark Delancey
Haa 372 World Cities: Cairo, Mother Of The World, Mark Delancey
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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 …
Women, Architecture And Representation In Mamluk Cairo, Amina Karam
Women, Architecture And Representation In Mamluk Cairo, Amina Karam
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Of the hundreds of documented religious monuments of Mamluk Cairo, known for its intense and often competitive building activity, about twenty are known to be associated with women, at least ten of which still exist in some form. This thesis discusses women's participation in the Mamluk culture of patronage and construction, looking at monuments associated with women not only as a body of work but as the architecture of individual players within the larger building context of Mamluk Cairo. Relying on architectural evidence as well as topographical literature and historical sources, this thesis offers a chronological narrative of women's architecture, …
Farm To Fork: Cairo’S Food Supply And Distribution During The Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517), Anthony Teke Quickel
Farm To Fork: Cairo’S Food Supply And Distribution During The Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517), Anthony Teke Quickel
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The wealth of Cairo’s markets throughout the Mamlūk period is well attested in the sources. From roving peddlers to stationary markets, the city’s food supply was a testament to Egypt’s agricultural bounty. This study attempts to understand the food economy that provisioned these food markets. In doing so, Egypt’s agricultural production, its transportation network, distribution system, and Cairo’s markets are discussed with a focus towards understanding both the nature of the many aspects of the Mamūk food economy as well as the changes occurring within it. In providing an overall description of the mechanisms by which the Mamlūk food economy …
Inscription Programs In Cairene Domestic Architecture (14th-18th Century), Noha Mohamed Khaled Abou-Khatwa
Inscription Programs In Cairene Domestic Architecture (14th-18th Century), Noha Mohamed Khaled Abou-Khatwa
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Nineteenth Century Domestic Architecture With ʻAbbasiyya As A Case Study, Nihal Tamraz
Nineteenth Century Domestic Architecture With ʻAbbasiyya As A Case Study, Nihal Tamraz
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The BahṛĪ Mamluk Monumental Entrances Of Cairo, Hilary L Roe
The BahṛĪ Mamluk Monumental Entrances Of Cairo, Hilary L Roe
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The Mosque Of Aṣlam Al-Silāḥdār, Chahinda Fahmi Karim
The Mosque Of Aṣlam Al-Silāḥdār, Chahinda Fahmi Karim
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The Ghawriyya In The Urban Context: An Analysis Of Its Form And Function, Shahira G Mehrez
The Ghawriyya In The Urban Context: An Analysis Of Its Form And Function, Shahira G Mehrez
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The Fatimi Mausolea Of Cairo, Caroline Ransom Williams
The Fatimi Mausolea Of Cairo, Caroline Ransom Williams
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