The Art And Architecture of Islamic Cairo

CHAPTER TWO
Fatimid Architecture
1 Holt, P., A. Lampton and B. Lewis, op. cit., pp. 180–4.
2 Halm, H., The Fatimids and their Traditions of Learning (London,
I. B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies,
1997) pp. 3–12.
3 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 68.
4 Beckwith, J., Early Christian and Byzantine Art (New Haven &
London, Yale University Press, 1970) pp. 86–8.
5 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 72. This was something of an
oriental tradition, surviving in the Islamic world well into the
Mughal period. At the Red Fort in Delhi a pavilion gate, the
Naqqar Khana, or Drum House, performed such a function.
6 Halm, H., op. cit., p. 41.
7 Halm, H., op. cit., chap. 2.
8 Halm, H., op. cit., pp. 41–6.
9 Hillenbrand, R., op. cit., pp. 59–60.
10 Halm, H., op. cit., pp. 72–3.
11 al-Maqrizi, al-Khitat, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 458.
12 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 68.
13 Lane-Poole, S. (1968), op. cit., pp. 125–34.
14 Ettinghausen, R. and O. Grabar, The Art and Architecture of
Islam, 650–1250 (New Haven & London, Yale University Press,
1987) pp. 176–8.
15 Hillenbrand, R., op. cit., pp. 166–7.
16 Hillenbrand, R., op. cit., p. 132.
17 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 64.
18 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 74.
19 Bloom, J., ‘The Mosque of the Qarafa in Cairo’, published in
Muqarnas, vol. 4, ed. Oleg Grabar (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1987) pp. 13–14.
20 Williams, C., ‘The Cult of Alid Saints in the Fatimid
Monuments of Cairo’, published in Muqarnas, vol. 3, ed. Oleg
Grabar (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1985) p. 44.
21 Williams, C., op. cit., p. 40.
22 Other traditions claim the presence of the holy relic in the
Great Mosque at Damascus.
23 Ibn Jubayr, The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (London, Broadhurst
Translation, 1952) p. 37.
24 Holt, P., A. Lampton and B. Lewis, op. cit., pp. 201–3.
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