The Art And Architecture of Islamic Cairo

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36 Ettinghausen, R., op. cit., p. 145. 37 Ettinghausen, R., op. cit., pp. 140–1. 38 Ettinghausen, R., op. cit., pp. 145–7. 39 Ettinghausen, R., op. cit., pp. 81–3. 40 Ettinghausen, R., op. cit., p. 184. 41 Robinson, B. W., op. cit., p. 34. 42 Ellis, M., op. cit., pp. 7–8. 43 Ellis, M., op. cit., pp. 21. 44 Baker, P., op. cit., p. 69. 45 Ellis, M. op. cit., pp. 30, 91. 46 Ellis, M., op. cit., pp. 92–3. 47 Baker, P., op. cit., p. 78. CHAPTER SEVEN The Architecture of the Burji Mamluks 1 King, J. W., Historical Dictionary of Egypt (Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, 1989) p. 215. 2 Rogers, M., op. cit., Apollo, Vol. C11, No. 170 (new series), April 1976, p. 307. 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid. This is one of the themes in his paper. 5 Rogers, M., The Making of the Past: The Spread of Islam (Oxford, Elsevier/Phaidon, 1975) pp. 96–8. 6 Rogers, M. (1975), op. cit., p. 104. 7 Rogers, M., op. cit., Apollo, Vol. C11, No. 170 (new series), April 1976, p. 308. 8 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 22. 9 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 142. 10 Rogers, M. (1975), op. cit., p. 98. 11 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 142. 12 Hillenbrand, R., op. cit., p. 199. 13 Hillenbrand, R., op. cit., pp. 199–200. 14 Ibid. 15 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 144. 16 Lane, E. W., op. cit., pp. 237–9. 17 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., pp. 23–4. 18 Behrens-Abouseif, D., op. cit., p. 147. 19 Blair, S. and J. Bloom, op. cit., p. 92. Notes and References 249
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THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ISLAMIC
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THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ISLAMIC
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Contents Map of Cairo vi Preface 1
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Preface When I first visited Egypt
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Art and Architecture of Islam, 650-
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exploitation and persecution under
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The ecumenical councils defined ort
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any further conquest of Egypt would
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negotiations took place between Cyr
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altogether, Amr subsequently played
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as ‘a people who love death bette
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point for urban development, but as
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He ordered them to place the stone
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Amr frequently preached the khutba
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After Salah al-Din, Sultan Baibars
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Its daily use in Amr’s time, serv
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AL-QATA’I With the fall of the Um
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throne in 870 he divided the empire
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in those days to recycle and use ex
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in an anti-clockwise direction up t
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on the north-west and south-east si
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plaster with cement or concrete. It
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organic and geometrical form. The r
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that of his wives in heroic size, a
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significant and legitimate minority
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knowledge of Egypt, both before and
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evidence here supports that view (t
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Bab al-Futuh, like Bal al-Nasr, is
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Although little remains of its orig
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oth al-Azhar and the palace were wi
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with fluted hoods. The whole façad
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Madrasa and tomb of Gawhar al-Qanaq
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vegetarian dish known as mulukhiyya
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monument, being restored by a numbe
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strong horizontal ribs at the botto
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formal religious gatherings found a
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out invocations, weeping and entrea
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Egypt and Sunni territory ruled by
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wooden fragments of this period in
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where it was developed in glass mak
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ecause this tiraz was woven in the
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sense of legitimacy in the wake of
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that of the delicate stucco mihrab
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craftsmen, although their origin is
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St Catherine’s monastery, Sinai,
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and to her left is a bottle-shaped
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oken by a spotted white underbelly
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and grotesques, and what distinguis
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decorated with palmettes, but the K
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lustre-painted bottle in the David
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from the second quarter of the elev
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shows a central palm tree dividing
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most illustrious lord al-Afdal, the
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Raynard of Chatillon’s attacks on
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0 0 100 200 100 200 Tomb of Sayyida
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the main Citadel, fortifications we
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Ibn Jubayr’s account is supported
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gone so far as to offer his sister
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largest. Its plan is divided into t
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height of 29 metres is almost that
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disciplined spirit of the age. The
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Mausoleum Madrasa Qibla iwan North-
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this new centre of government in th
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imprisonment in the Red Tower on th
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doors on the exterior are matched i
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literature, the sciences, art and a
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chase he was murdered, but accounts
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tough unyielding personality of its
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over the world. The intellectual cl
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left: The minaret and dome of the S
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patterns of the central window gril
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138 The Art and Architecture of Isl
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above: The sahn of the madrasa of S
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elow: The minaret of the madrasa of
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ight: The khanqah- madrasa of Amir
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elow: The khanqah of Baibars al-Jas
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top: The mosque of al-Maridani. abo
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elow: Mosque of Sultan Hasan taken
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elow: Plan of the Sultan Hasan mosq
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above: The qibla iwan of the Sultan
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above: Mausoleum of Gur-i Amir, Sam
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CHAPTER SIX The Decorative Arts of
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above: Twelfth-century Persian frit
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above: Brass basin incised and inla
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top: Brass candlestick inlaid with
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above: Incense burner: 1268-79 (Bri
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elow: Brass basin inlaid with silve
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top: Mosque lamp: c. 1350-60. above
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top: Doors of the Sultan Hasan mosq
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above: Panel from the mausoleum of
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top: Stone minbar in the khanqah of
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above: Frontispiece of a Qur’an w
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above: ‘Hand-Washing Machine’ f
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above: Frontispiece to the Maqamat
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above: The Simonetti Carpet: late f
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above: Child’s tunic: late fourte
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Page 249 and 250: Notes and References 240 The Art an
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Page 265 and 266: Chronology of Dynasties and Rulers
Page 267 and 268: Table of Dynasties Islamic Calendar
Page 273 and 274: Acknowledgements The Publishers wou
Page 275 and 276: Armenian district 104 Armenians 46,
Page 277 and 278: ewers (aquamaniles) metalwork 83-4,
Page 279 and 280: al-Salih’s (Salihiya) 116-18, 137
Page 281 and 282: 60-1, 225 Philo of Byzantium 188 Ph
Page 283 and 284: ulers 257 textiles 73-6, 195 woodwo
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