Historians In Cairo

Author : Anthony Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135145330

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Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt by Anthony Gorman Pdf

This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the state and non-academic scholarship and the tension between them in contesting the modern history of Egypt. In a detailed discussion of the literature, the study analyzes the political nature of competing interpretations and uses the examples of Copts and resident foreigners to demonstrate the dissonant challenges to the national discourse that testify to its limitations, deficiencies and silences.

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0674003160

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Cairo by André Raymond Pdf

The extraordinary tapestry of Cairo's past and present comes vividly to life in this magisterial study by one of the top social historians of the Arab world. This deeply observed account shows Cairo from the glimmer of its beginnings in the Arab conquest of Egypt in 640 through its transformation into the modern center of Middle Eastern life today. 63 halftones. Maps & tables.

Author : George T. Scanlon
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774247019

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Historians in Cairo by George T. Scanlon Pdf

There can be few if any historians working in the wide field of Middle East Studies--and certainly none in the world of Islamic art and architecture--who are unacquainted with historian and archaeologist George Scanlon. At different times from the mid-1950s to the present day he has lived, worked, and studied in Egypt. For a major part of that period, he has been associated with the American University in Cairo, where he is currently professor of Islamic art and architecture in the Department of Arabic Studies. Although diverse in subject matter, the essays collected here in his honor together present a composite picture of Cairo, and more broadly of Islamic history and culture, from early medieval times to the present day. As such they provide a fitting tribute to one of the most eminent of scholars in the field. Some contributors are one-time students of Professor Scanlon, others are colleagues who, over the years, have worked with him in Egypt, the United States, or Britain. The essays themselves reflect the wide variety of sources contributors have drawn on from international Islamic collections and archives for topics that range broadly from medieval artifacts, architecture, and society to current issues of law, literature, philosophy, and urban change.

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
ISBN : 9774161246

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Cairo by André Raymond Pdf

Author : Nezar AlSayyad
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674047860

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Cairo by Nezar AlSayyad Pdf

From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city’s history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form. In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo’s built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order—a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt's various rulers and regimes—from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond—have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today.

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
ISBN : 0847825000

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Cairo by André Raymond Pdf

Gaze toward the Nile from the desert hills of Mokattam and the vast city of Cairo unfolds before you, with its monumental architecture, teeming populace, and thousands of years of rich history. The extraordinary tapestry of CairoÕs past and present comes vividly to life in this magisterial study by AndrÄ Raymond, arguably the premier social historian of the Arab world.

Author : William Lyster (Art historian)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
ISBN : UOM:39015029699207

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The Citadel of Cairo by William Lyster (Art historian) Pdf

Author : Yoav Di-Capua
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520944817

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Gatekeepers of the Arab Past by Yoav Di-Capua Pdf

This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers of the Past examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historucal literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the post-colonial state.

Author : William Lyster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9775089026

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The Citadel of Cairo by William Lyster Pdf

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004144422

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Islamic Art in the 19th Century by Doris Behrens-Abouseif,Stephen Vernoit Pdf

This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it. Beginning with an historical introduction and an assessment of changing attitudes towards the visual arts the following essays provide case studies of architecture and art in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, sub-Saharan Africa, Iran, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. They examine such issues as patronage, sources of artistic inspiration and responses to European art. The essays have a relevance and importance for our understanding of the societies and attitudes of that time, and have a direct bearing on the more general debate concerning cultural identity and the integration of modern ideas in the Muslim world. The book is richly illustrated with very many illustrations in black-and-white and in full colour.

Author : Ronald T. Ridley
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617979446

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Akhenaten by Ronald T. Ridley Pdf

A groundbreaking historiography of the reign of Akhenaten More ink has probably been spilled on Akhenaten and his times (‘the Amarna Period’) than any other figure from ancient Egypt, with a vast range of interpretations and theories that can leave the uninitiated utterly bewildered. Against this background, Akhenaten: A Historian’s View examines what scholars have said over the years regarding key aspects of the period, to produce a ‘history of histories,’ exploring exactly how various chains of arguments were arrived at—and how houses of cards thus erected have subsequently come tumbling down. In particular, it teases out ideas based on solid documentation from those based on theory and fancy, and tracks ways in which new evidence became available, how it was interpreted, and how it fed—or didn't—into the big picture. This book thus fills a major gap in the literature of the Amarna Period and also contributes to the wider, and much neglected, field of the historiography of ancient Egypt.

Author : Albert Habib Hourani,Albert Hourani
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0674010175

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A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Habib Hourani,Albert Hourani Pdf

Chronicles the history of Arab civilization, looking at the beauty of the great mosques, the importance attached to education, the achievements of Arab science, the role of women, internal conflicts, and the Palestinian question.

Author : Nezar AlSayyad,Irene A. Bierman,Nasser Rabbat
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739157435

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Making Cairo Medieval by Nezar AlSayyad,Irene A. Bierman,Nasser Rabbat Pdf

During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a 'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual city—physically and psychically split between East/West and modern/medieval—the contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.

Author : Walter J. Fischel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520335080

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Ibn Khaldun in Egypt by Walter J. Fischel Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Author : Adam Mestyan
Publisher : IFAO
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9782724708097

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Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo by Adam Mestyan Pdf

How old is the world? This question was a central problem for Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the face of the new scientific discoveries in the nineteenth century. This book introduces the answer from a Muslim point of view, outside of official institutions. The extended introduction - a microhistory in the Middle East - explores the life and oeuvre of a forgotten Egyptian intellectual and poet, Mustafa Salama al-Naggari (d. 1870). Next, A. Mestyan provides the English translation and Arabic transcription of the surviving fragments of al-Naggari's manuscript, The Garden of Ismail's Praise. This is a universal history of Egypt, written while the Suez Canal was under construction to praise the governor Khedive Ismail (r. 1863-1879). The author advocates a unique solution to computing the period of primordial history, before the Deluge, in the age of steam and print. Al-Naggari's alternative Nahda voice is available for the first time in this edition.