Early Twentieth Century Islamic Architecture In Cairo

Author : Tarek Mohamed Refaat Sakr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:B4328084

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Early Twentieth-century Islamic Architecture in Cairo by Tarek Mohamed Refaat Sakr Pdf

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a reaction in Cairo against the occidentalizing architectural trends which had prevailed in the nineteenth century and interrupted the natural evolution of Islamic architecture. This new study seeks to define the different trends of the Islamic Revival period and discuss their motivation, progress, and achievements. After a survey of the stylistic evolution and foreign influences in Cairene architecture until the end of the eighteenth century and a brief account of the nineteenth-century background to the Islamic Revival period, the author discusses the impact of architectural education, nationalism, and parallel styles on Islamic Revival architecture. Then, through the examples of a number of Cairo facades, he proposes for the first time a definition of five recognizable Islamic Revival styles: Neo-Islamic Revival, Modernized Islamic, Eclectic, Twentieth-Century Islamic, and Baroque Islamic (Heliopolis).

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004096264

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Islamic Architecture in Cairo by Doris Behrens-Abouseif Pdf

For architecture or history students or interested travellers, presents descriptions, histories, photographs, plans, and drawings of detail for buildings erected in the Egyptian capital from the earliest Islamic through the Ottoman periods. References to the Survey Map of the Islamic Monuments of Cairo aid readers in finding the buildings. A reprint of the 1989 publication. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004660793

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Islamic Architecture in Cairo by Behrens-Abouseif Pdf

Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004540873

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Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2 by Michael Greenhalgh Pdf

This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774242033

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Islamic Architecture in Cairo by Doris Behrens-Abouseif Pdf

Annotation. Known as the "Mother of the World", Cairo has one of the highest concentrations of Islamic architectural treasures in the world. This introduction to the subject begins with an analysis of the Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest in 641 through to the Ottoman Period and the reign ofMuhammad Ali at the beginning of the 19th century. From that point, the reader is given a guided tour of the evolution of Cairo's Islamic architecture and an overview of its main styles through the investigation of monuments spanning 1200 years. The book also includes a descriptive catalogue of themajor monuments from the early Islamic period through the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Bahri Mamluk, Circassian Mamluk and Ottoman periods. This concise and comprehensive study will appeal to specialists as well as beginning students and interested lay readers.

Author : Caroline Williams
Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781617972782

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Islamic Monuments in Cairo by Caroline Williams Pdf

Cairo’s Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo’s spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor. This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city’s most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments such as the Amir Taz Palace and the Sitt Wasila House. “This book ought to be in the luggage of every visitor to Cairo. Furthermore, once home, lovers and students of Cairo’s architecture will find it a convenient and accurate quick reference as well as a cherished souvenir of many profitable and enjoyable rambles among the monuments of Cairo.” —Jonathan M. Bloom, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt “Any visitor to Cairo who wants to see the monuments should not be without it.” —Bernard O’Kane “Anyone interested in knowing more about Cairo’s Islamic architecture should pick up the excellent Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide.” —Lonely Planet: Cairo, 1998

Author : Nasser O. Rabbat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004492486

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The Citadel of Cairo by Nasser O. Rabbat Pdf

This architectural history of the Citadel of Cairo uses indices from maps, photographs, plans of hitherto unstudied structures, and a large array of historical documents to chronologically reconstruct the Citadel's development from its foundation by Salah al-Din until it reached its most monumental form in the middle of the fourteenth century. The study analyzes the influence of Mamluk socio-political hierarchy on the conceptualization of the Citadel's spaces and forms; assesses its impact on medieval Cairo; proposes a new interpretation for the development of Mamluk royal architecture; and presents new definitions for a number of medieval architectural terms. By weaving the history of the Citadel together with the history of Cairo and the Mamluk system, this book is relevant to historians of architecture and urbanism and medieval historians.

Author : Henri Stierlin
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3836510596

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Islam by Henri Stierlin Pdf

The products of a highly-developed architectural style even today bear witness to the greatness of Arabic culture. To the western eye, cities such as Jerusalem, Mecca, Baghdad or Cairo can seem utterly alien. It is not only the way of life that is unfamiliar, it is also the astoundingly varied architecture. This volume surveys more than six centuries of Islamic architecture, from the late 7th century to the mid-13th, placing mosques, Koran schools and palaces in their cultural, religious and political contexts. Distinctive features are its view of building as reflection of Moslem thinking, and its focus on the Arab world.With more than 200 colour photographs, numerous plans, chronological tables and an extensive glossary, this is a reference work which appeals to the expert and the travel-hungry reader alike.

Author : Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1697 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195309911

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Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set by Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair Pdf

The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.

Author : Ahmed Abdel-Gawad
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774160622

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Enter in Peace by Ahmed Abdel-Gawad Pdf

This photographic book sheds new light upon the architectural and decorative elements of domestic doorways from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Cairo. Previous studies on the subject have been few and far between, and have paid more attention to the Cairo of Khedive Ismail--the new quarter of the city. Enter in Peace focuses instead on those doorways of houses built in Cairo's older neighborhoods, and inhabited by Egypt's middle classes. Included here are over 150 photographs, illustrating eighty-one of these doorways as well as the façades of the buildings in which they appear. The book records their dimensions and their various architectural and stylistic elements, from the structure of doors, lintels, and paneling to common designs and motifs. Built during a period of great change and modernization in Egypt, these doorways reflect the Ottoman, European, neo-Pharaonic, and Islamic Revival architectural styles prevalent at the time. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad has made a careful study of these historic doorways, with descriptive comments on the houses' original owners and dates of construction, drawing on tax records and histori-cal documentation to present them in context. Handsomely illustrated and thoroughly researched, Enter in Peace provides an important visual record of Cairo's rapidly disappearing architectural heritage.

Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004524859

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Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia by Michael Greenhalgh Pdf

An anthology of mainly 17th to early 20th-century Western published descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, charting decoration, dilapidation and restoration, as well as the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East.

Author : Paula Sanders
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781617972300

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Creating Medieval Cairo by Paula Sanders Pdf

This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comité) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Offering fresh perspectives and keen historical analysis, this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo.

Author : Sandy Isenstadt,Kishwar Rizvi
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780295800301

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Modernism and the Middle East by Sandy Isenstadt,Kishwar Rizvi Pdf

This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's new materials, methods, and motives. Architecture, as physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing the tensions between achieving both international relevance and regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a range of diverse practices.

Author : Caroline Williams
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774162056

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Islamic Monuments in Cairo by Caroline Williams Pdf

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor. This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments such as the Amir Taz Palace and the Sitt Wasila House. "This book ought to be in the luggage of every visitor to Cairo. Furthermore, once home, lovers and students of Cairo's architecture will find it a convenient and accurate quick reference as well as a cherished souvenir of many profitable and enjoyable rambles among the monuments of Cairo." -Jonathan M. Bloom, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt "Any visitor to Cairo who wants to see the monuments should not be without it." -Bernard O'Kane "Anyone interested in knowing more about Cairo's Islamic architecture should pick up the excellent Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide." -Lonely Planet: Cairo, 1998

Author : Ahmad Hamid
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9774163419

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Hassan Fathy and Continuity in Islamic Architecture by Ahmad Hamid Pdf

A thought-provoking and richly illustrated look at tradition and innovation in the work of the world-renowned architect