The Art And Architecture of Islamic Cairo
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248 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong> and <strong>Architecture</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Islamic</strong> <strong>Cairo</strong><br />
14 <strong>The</strong> Metropolitan Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>, <strong>The</strong> Metropolitan Museum <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Art</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Islamic</strong> World (New York, <strong>The</strong> Metropolitan Museum<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>, 1987) p. 55.<br />
15 Ward, R., op. cit., p. 108.<br />
16 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s Council <strong>of</strong> Great Britain, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s <strong>of</strong> Islam, op. cit., p. 187.<br />
17 Lane-Poole, S. (1886), op. cit., pp. 226–31.<br />
18 Ellis, M., op. cit., p. 80.<br />
19 <strong>The</strong> Metropolitan Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Islamic</strong> World, op. cit., p. 48.<br />
20 Ward, R., op. cit., p. 35.<br />
21 In 1415 Sultan al-Mu’ayyad illegally obtained Sultan Hasan’s<br />
doors and installed them in his new mosque near Bab Zuwaila,<br />
where they can now be seen. A more recent example <strong>of</strong> cultural<br />
plunder is their appearance in the background to Valentine<br />
Princep’s painting At the Golden Gate (1882) in Manchester City<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Gallery. Princep exercised considerable poetic licence by<br />
using fourteenth-century Mamluk art to illustrate a New<br />
Testament parable – that <strong>of</strong> the wise and foolish virgins.<br />
22 Critchlow, K., <strong>Islamic</strong> Patterns (London, Thames & Hudson,<br />
1976) p. 189.<br />
23 Lings, M., <strong>The</strong> Quranic <strong>Art</strong> <strong>of</strong> Calligraphy and Illumination<br />
(London, World <strong>of</strong> Islam Festival Trust, 1976) pp. 115–17.<br />
24 Rogers, M., ‘<strong>The</strong> Stones <strong>of</strong> Barquq: Building materials and<br />
architectural decoration in late fourteenth-century <strong>Cairo</strong>’, Apollo,<br />
vol. CIII, no. 170 (new series) (London, April 1976) p. 312.<br />
25 Herzfeld, E., Materiaux pour un Corpus Inscriptiorum Arabicarum,<br />
III, Syrie du Nord: Inscriptions et Monuments d’ Alep, 1, <strong>Cairo</strong>,<br />
1955, pp. 124–8.<br />
26 Lane-Poole, S. (1886), op. cit., p. 137.<br />
27 Lane, E. W., op. cit., pp. 7–9.<br />
28 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s Council <strong>of</strong> Great Britain, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s <strong>of</strong> Islam, op. cit., p. 291.<br />
29 Folio 6. India Office Library, Ethe 2221. Quoted in Arnold, T.,<br />
Painting in Islam (New York, Dover, 1965) p. 2.<br />
30 Lings, M., <strong>The</strong> Qur’an: A British Library Exhibition (London,<br />
World <strong>of</strong> Islam Festival Publishing Company, 1976) p. 13.<br />
31 Lings, M., op. cit. (British Library Exhibiton), p. 14.<br />
32 <strong>The</strong> words <strong>of</strong> al-Hariri quoted from H. A. R. Gibb, Arabic<br />
Literature (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1974) p. 124.<br />
33 Mathews, T., <strong>The</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>of</strong> Byzantium (London, Everyman <strong>Art</strong><br />
Library, 1988) p. 74.<br />
34 Hitti, P., op. cit., pp. 302–3.<br />
35 Metropolitan Museum <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>, op. cit., p. 51