The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to
Minarets have defined Cairo's skyline since its early history: they are one of the most characteristic features of Islamic architecture. In Egypt, where civilizations have manifested themselves through awe-inspiring structures since antiquity, 'a thousand minarets' reveal the impact of Islamic civilization and urban aesthetics. "The Minarets of Cairo" offers an accessible and vivid insight into the religious, historical and architectural significance of the minaret in Cairo from the Arab Conquest, through the Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Students and scholars will welcome historian and art historian Doris Behrens-Abouseif's excellent new research and analysis as well as over one hundred illustrated entries for individual minarets, brought to life by Nicholas Warner's masterly architectural drawings and reconstructions. With nearly three hundred illustrations, this beautiful book provides depth and color, displaying to full effect historic Cairo's most impressive monuments.
Doris Behrens-Abouseif is the Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS). She previously taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of Munich. She is widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent scholar on the architecture of Cairo, and a leading specialist in the art and cultural history of the Middle East. She has written a number of books on Islamic art and architecture including Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture (I.B.Tauris), Beauty in Arabic Culture and Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule. Nicholas Warner is an architect and architectural historian. He trained at Cambridge University and Harvard University and has, since 1992, been involved in a number of projects to preserve sites of historical and archaeological interest in Egypt. His books include Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue and The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View.
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Format: Hardback, 384 pages, 215mm x 325mm, 2434 g
Published: 2010, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Genre: Architecture
Minarets have defined Cairo's skyline since its early history: they are one of the most characteristic features of Islamic architecture. In Egypt, where civilizations have manifested themselves through awe-inspiring structures since antiquity, 'a thousand minarets' reveal the impact of Islamic civilization and urban aesthetics. "The Minarets of Cairo" offers an accessible and vivid insight into the religious, historical and architectural significance of the minaret in Cairo from the Arab Conquest, through the Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Students and scholars will welcome historian and art historian Doris Behrens-Abouseif's excellent new research and analysis as well as over one hundred illustrated entries for individual minarets, brought to life by Nicholas Warner's masterly architectural drawings and reconstructions. With nearly three hundred illustrations, this beautiful book provides depth and color, displaying to full effect historic Cairo's most impressive monuments.
Doris Behrens-Abouseif is the Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS). She previously taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of Munich. She is widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent scholar on the architecture of Cairo, and a leading specialist in the art and cultural history of the Middle East. She has written a number of books on Islamic art and architecture including Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture (I.B.Tauris), Beauty in Arabic Culture and Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule. Nicholas Warner is an architect and architectural historian. He trained at Cambridge University and Harvard University and has, since 1992, been involved in a number of projects to preserve sites of historical and archaeological interest in Egypt. His books include Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue and The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View.