The Art And Architecture of Islamic Cairo

Notes and References
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PREFACE
1 Said, E. W., ‘Egyptian Rites’ (1983) published in The Face of
Tutankhamun, ed. Christopher Frayling (London, Faber &
Faber, 1992) p. 282.
2 Description de l’Egypte: Pupliée par les ordres de Napoléon
Bonaparte edition complete (Cologne, Taschen, 1997) p. 13.
3 Searight, S., The British in the Middle East (London & The
Hague, East-West Publications, 1979) p. 77.
4 During my early researches into the collection of Islamic
woodwork in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, I was
astounded to find that many of the catalogue entries still
consisted of the original handwritten notes by Stanley
Lane-Poole, with little added since.
INTRODUCTION
Egypt and the Arab Conquest
1 Bagnall, R. S., ‘The Fayum and its People’, Ancient Faces:
Mummy Portraits from Ancient Egypt, eds. Susan Walker and
Morris Bierbrier (London, British Museum Press, 1997) p. 18.
2 Butler, A. J., The Arab Conquest of Egypt (Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1902) p. 42.