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Selected Publications Books The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995). Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition , ed. D. Reynolds (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). Co-author (with K. Brustad, M. Cooperson, J. J. Elias, N. N. Khoury, J. Lowry, Sh. Toorawa, D. F. Reynolds, and D. Stewart). Thaqafat al Bina' wa Bina' al-Thaqafa: Buhuth wa Maqalat fi Naqd wa Tarikh al-ëImara. 1985-2000 (The Culture of Building and Building Culture: Essays and Articles on Criticism and History of Architecture. 1985-2000) (Beirut: Riad Alrayyes Publisher, 2002). Making Cairo Medieval, eds. Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat (Lantham, Md.: Lexington Press, 2005) . Scholarly Articles and Book Sections ì ëAjib and Gharib : Artistic Perception in Medieval Arabic Sources,î The Medieval History Journal 9, 1 (2006): 99-113. "The Militarization of Taste in Medieval Bilad al-Sham,' in Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria from the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period, Hugh Kennedy, ed. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005), 84-105. "The Transcultural Meaning of the Dome of the Rock," in The Open Veins of Jerusalem, Munir Akash and Fouad Moughrabi, eds. (Jusoor Book, distributed by Syracuse University Press, 2005), 71-107. ìThe Medieval Link: Maqrizi's Khitat and Modern Narratives of Cairo,î in Making Cairo Medieval, eds. Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat (Lantham, Md.: Lexington Press, 2005), 29-47. "Documenting Buildings in the Waqf System," Thresholds 28 "concerto barocco: essays in honor of Henry A. Millon" (Spring 2005): 30-32. "Islamic Architecture as a Field of Historical Inquiry," AD Architectural Design , Special Issue Islam+Architecture 74, 6 (Nov-Dec 2004): 18-23. "A Brief History of Green Spaces in Cairo," in Cairo: Revitalising a Historic Metropolis, S. Bianca and P. Jodidio (Geneva: The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2004), 43-53. ìThe Visual Milieu of the Counter-Crusade in Syria and Egyptî in The Crusades: Other Experiences, Alternate Perspectives. Selected Proceedings from the 32d Annual CEMERS Conference, K. I. Semaan, ed. (Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 2003), 71-81. "Who Was al-Maqrizi? A Biographical Sketch," Mamluk Studies Review 7, 2 (2003): 1-19. "Hassan Fathy and the Identity Debate," in Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, Gilane Tawadros and Sarah Campbell, eds., (London: Institute of International Visual Art, 2003), 196-203. "The Dialogic Dimension in Umayyad Art," RES 43 (Spring 2003): 78-94. "In the Beginning Was the House: On the Image of the Two Noble Sanctuaries of Islam," Thresholds 25 (Fall 2002): 56-59. "Concluding Remarks: The Boundaries of Architectural Education Today," in Architectural Education Today: Cross-Cultural Perspectives , A. Salama, W. O'Reilly, and K. Noschis, eds. (Lausanne: Comportements, 2002), 149-53. "Perception of Architecture in Mamluk Sources," Mamluk Studies Review 6 (2002): 155-76. "Maqrizi's Khitat: An Egyptian Lieu de Mémoire" in The Cairo Heritage. Papers in Honor of Layla Ali Ibrahim, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, ed. (Cairo, AUC Press, 2001), 17-30. "Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk Historical Writing," in The Historiography of Islamic Egypt, c. 950-1800, Hugh Kennedy, ed. (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 2000), 59-75. "Restoration Projects in Islamic Cairo Critiqued," in Medina 13 (May-June 2000): 48-51. ìThe Changing Concept of Mamluk in the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria,î in Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study, Miura Toru And John Edward Philips, eds.(London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 2000), 81-98. "The Mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus: A Classical Syrian Medium Acquires a Mamluk Signature." Aram 9-10 (1997-1998 [1999]): 1-13. "The Interplay of History and Archaeology in Beirut," in Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of the Modern City. Peter G. Rowe and Hashim Sarkis, eds. (Munich; London; New York: Prestel, 1998), 19-22. "Architects and Artists in Mamluk Society: The Perspective of the Sources," Journal of Architectural Education 52, 1 (Sept. 1998): 30-37. "The Formation of the Neo-Mamluk Style in Modern Egypt." In The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge. Essays Presented to Stanford Anderson on his Sixty-Second Birthday. Martha Pollak, ed., (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1997), 363-86. "My Life with Salah al-Din: The Memoirs of ëImad al-Din al-Katib al-Isfahani." Edebiyat 7: 2 (Fall 1996): 61-81. "Al-Azhar Mosque: An Architectural Chronicle of Cairo's History." Muqarnas 13 (1996): 45-67. "The Ideological Significance of the Dar al-ëAdl in the Medieval Islamic Orient." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 27, 1 (Feb 1995): 3-28. "Writing the History of Islamic Architecture in Cairo." Design Book Review 31 (Winter 1994): 48-51. "The 'Militarization' of Architectural Expression in the Medieval Middle East: An Outline." al-ëUsur al-Wusta 6, 1 (April 1994): 4-6. "Mamluk Throne Halls: Qubba or Iwan." Ars Orientalis 23 (1993): 201-18 . "The Dome of the Rock Revisited: Some Remarks on al-Wasiti's Accounts." Muqarnas 10 (1993): 67-75 (Special Issue: Festschrift for Oleg Grabar). "The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock." Muqarnas 6 (1990): 12-21. The Citadel of Cairo. (Geneva, 1989) a 32-page booklet commissioned by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland "The Iwans of the Madrasa of Sultan Hasan." ARCE Newsletter 143-44 (1988/89): 5-8. "The Palace of the Lions in Alhambra and the Role of Water in its Conception." AARP/Environmental Design 2 (1985): 64-73. Other Articles and Book SectionsìJarr al-ëAmud,î Turath: Egypt's Heritage Review vol. 0(2008): 78-80. "A Mosque and an Imperial Dream," in the Series on Muhammad Ali, Al-Ahram Weekly (18-24 August 2005), 18. "Foreword," to Adonis, A Time between Ashes and Roses, translated from the Arabic by Shawkat M. Toorawa (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004). "On being named Nasser," Al-Ahram Weekly , Special Supplement: Gold Jubilee of The 1952 Revolution, No. 595 (18-24 July 2002), 16. ìLe classicisme, version arabe contemporaine," Qantara 42 (Hiver 2001-2002): 30-34. "Salâh al-Dîn et l'imaginaire," Qantara 41 (Automne 2001): 30-36. "The Shaping of the Mamlouk Image," in Hadeeth al-Dar 10 (Kuwait, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya, 2001): 2-5. ìAdonis, l'homme critique et poète d'un même souffle,î in Adonis, un poète dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, 1950-2000 (Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 2000), 314-16. "Où vivaient les sultans mamelouks?" Aujourd'hui L'Égypte 9 (Automne 1989): 34-39. Scholarly Articles in Arabic ìThe Concept of Architecture in Medieval Islamic Writings,î ëAlam al-Fikr 34, 4 (April-June 2006): 7-35. "The Problem of Identity in Contemporary Arab Architecture," Majallat al-Funun 61 (January 2006): 25-27. "The Architectural and Memorial Significance of the Two Harams," Ibdaëat Handasiyya 2 (2004): 101-105. "Classicism in the Contemporary Arabic Historical Discourse: Our Heritage or theirs?" Majallat al-Adab 52, 5/6 (2004): 14-18. "The Art of the Southern Mediterranean is Still 'The Other'," Majallat al-Adab 52, 3/4 (2004): 85-88. "Some Thoughts on Tourism in Syria: The 'Dead Cities' in Balëas Mountains as a Model," Ibdaëat Handasiyya 1 (2004): 112-16. "Writing on Architecture: A New Journal in Arabic," lead article in the first issue of Ibdaëat Handasiyya 1 (2003): 8-10. "Remarks on the Relationship between the Woman and the House in Arabic Culture," Majallat al-Funun 25 (January 2003): 59-61. "Qasr and the Connotations of Monumentality in Mamluk Architecture," Bulletin d'Études Orientales 53-54 (2001-2002): 539-558. "The City, History, and Power: al-Maqrizi and his Pioneering Book'al-Mawaëiz wa al-Iëtibar bi Dhikr al-Khitat wa al-Athar,'" Annales Islamologiques 35 (2001): 77-100. ìIslamic Architecture: Trying to Break out of the Old Paradigm,î Majallat al-Funun 1 (January 2001): 39-41. ìArchitecture and Memory: An Invitation to Think,î Wughat Nazar 23 (December 2000): 62-64. "Toward a Reevaluation of the Umayyad Artistic Culture," Abwab 19 (Winter 1999): 88-107. "The Iwan: Its Spatial Meaning and Memorial Value," Bulletin d'Études Orientales 49 (1997): 249-67. "Dar al-ëAdl, the History of a Medieval Islamic Institution," Al-Ijtihad 6, 22 (Winter 1994): 57-82. "The Development of the Souk in Damascus, 700-1900," Les Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes 37 (1988-89 [1991]): 75-104. The Citadel of Cairo. (Geneva, 1989) a 32-page booklet commissioned by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland. "The Concept of the Residence Quarter in 19th c. Damascus," Les Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes 35 (1985): 537-64. "The Social Order in the Layout of the Islamic City," al-Mouhandis al-Arabi, Journal of the Syrian Order of Engineers 78 (Sept.-Oct 1984): 9-11. Other Publications in Arabic "Shangri-La" short story, Majallat al-Adab 55, 10/11 (2007): 53-58. ìDia al-Din, A Life Story,î Majallat al-Adab 55, 3/4 (2007): 81-87. "Al-Mawëid (the Rendez-vous)" short story, Majallat al-Adab 54, 10/11/12 (2006): 62-65. "The Right of Palestine to Exist," Majallat al-Adab 54, 3/4 (2006): 14-19. "Buqëa Munira Saghira (A Tiny Spot of Light)" short story, Majallat al-Adab 54, 1/2 (2006): 32-37. "Ummi wa Abi wa Ana," short story, Majallat al-Adab 53, 8/9/10 (2005): 63-67. "The Dream of Safwan Dahoul," Ibdaëat Handasiyya 3 (2005): 72-79. "In Defense of Criticism: A Call to Arab Critics," Majallat al-Adab 53, 6/7 (2005): 4-7. "Abdo," short story, Majallat al-Adab 53, 3/4/5(2005): 78-82. Arabism in the Heart of Expatriate Life," Majallat al-Adab 53, 1/2 (2005): 4-9. "Raqsat al-Tannura (The Dance of Tannura)," Short story, Majallat al-Adab 52, 7/8 (2004): 44-48. "Remarks on the Novel 'My Name is Red' by Orhan Pamuk," (in Arabic), Wughat Nazar 46 (Nov 2002): 58-60. "The Representational Elements of the Mamluk Image," Hadeeth al-Dar 10 (2001): 2-7. ìOn Freedom and Belonging in the Arab World,î Wughat Nazar 29 (June 2001): 64-69. "Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi: The Hero between History and Myth and the Postmodern Framework. A Criticial Review of The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali," Al-Bahrain al-Thaqafiyya 26 (Oct. 2000): 29-34. ìRemarks on the Document , Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past, Did the Pope Apologize to the Muslims?î Wughat Nazar 18 (July 2000): 46-49. "Signs of the Built in ëAsfar al-Bunyan': Architecture in the Writings of Jamal al-Ghitani," Al-Hilal 107, 1(January 1999): 152-59. " Oral Messages of ëAbd al-Hamid ëAbd al-Latif (film review)," Majallat al-Fann al-Sabië 8 (July 1998): 48-49. Contributor to the Arabic international newspapers al-Hayat (June 1998-April 1999), al-Mustaqbal (August 1999-February 2000), and al-Quds al-ëArabi (2001-2004), and the cultural journals Akhbar al-Adab (March 1999-present), and An-Naqid (1993-1994) on issues in cultural policies, architectural history, art and architectural criticism, and reviews of books, exhibitions, and films. Encyclopedia Entries Articles "Shadirwan," in the Encyclopedia of Islam, 2d ed. (1960-continuing) 9: 175-76; "tiraz," forthcoming; "Riwak," 8: 544-45; "Ribat," 8: 506. "Rank," 8: 431-33. Articles, "Mosque," "Abbasids," "Muëawiya," "ëAbd al-Malik," "al-Tabari," and "al-Baladhuri," in Late Antiquity A Guide to the Late Antique World, G. W. Bowersock, P. Brown, and O. Grabar eds., (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999). Article "the City," in Encyclopedia of the Qur'an. E.J. Brill Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands (2001-). Article "Damascus," in Encyclopedia Britannica (2004). Books in PreparationA book on the fifteenth-century historian al-Maqrizi and his Khitat compendium, to be published by Brill in 2008 under the title. Historicizing the City: The Significance of Maqrizi's Khitat of Egypt. A book of collected essays, originally delivered at the Institut du monde arabe (IMA) in Paris in January and February 2003, to be published by IMA. It is entitled, L'art Islamique à la recherche d'une méthode historique. An edited book of essays on the courtyard house entitled The Courtyard House: Between Cultural Expression and Universal Application to be published by Ashgate in 2008. A book of collected essays, Architecture As Social History: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria, under consideration by I. B. Tauris, London. A book of collected Arabic essays, al-Naqd Iltizaman (Criticism as Commitment) (Beirut: Riad Alrayyes Publisher, forthcoming 2008). An edited book of essays on Early Islamic Urbanism to be published by E.J. Brill in 2009. Book ReviewsNicholas Warner, The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View, and Richard Yeomans, The Art and Architecture of Islamic Cairo , in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67,1 (March 2008): 144-46. Response to Nebahat Avcioglu ìIdentity-as-Form: The Mosque in the West,î Cultural Analysis 6 (2007) http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume6/vol6_article4.html#response Fahmi 'Abd al-'Alim, Al-'Imarah al-Islamiyah fi 'Asr al-Mamalik al-Jarakisah: 'Asr al-Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh , in Mamluk Studies Review 10, 2 (2006): 210-13. Yasser Tabbaa, The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival , in Mamluk Studies Review 7, 2 (2003): 250-53. Diala Khasawneh, Memoirs Engraved in Stone: Palestinian Urban Mansions, in Journal of Palestine Studies 125, 32, 1 (Fall 2002): 107-109. Husni Muhammad Nuwaysir, al-ëImara al-Islamiyya fi-Misr: ëAsr al-Ayyubiyyin wa-l Mamalik (Islamic Architecture in Egypt: the Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods), in Mamluk Studies Review 5 (2001): 205-208. Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom, The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800, in Design Book Review 37/38 (Summer 1996): 94-96. Nelly Hanna, Habiter au Caire, la maison moyenne et ses habitants aux 17e et 18e siècles, in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 26, 2 (May 1994): 296-99. Hadi al-ëAlawi, Min Tarikh al-Taëzib fi al-Islam [On the History of Torture in Islam], and al Muntakhab mina al-Luzumiyyat: Naqd al-Dawla wa al-Din wa al-Nas [The Critique of State, Religion and People], in al-ëUsur al-Wusta 5, 2 (Oct. 1993): 41-42. Juan Eduardo Campo, The Other Sides of Paradise: Explorations into the Religious Meanings of Domestic Space in Islam, in Design Book Review, 29/30 (Summer/Fall 1993): 79-81. ëAziz al-ëAzma, al-ëArab wa'l-Barabira: al-Muslimun wa'l-Hadarat al-Ukhra, [Arabs and Barbarians: Muslims and Other Cultures] and M. ëAbbas al-Musawi, al-ëAwamil al-Ta'rikiyya li-Nash'at wa Tatawwur al-Mudun al-ëArabiyya al-Islamiyya, [The Historical Factors contributing to the Founding and Development of Arabo-Islamic Cities]î in al-ëUsur al-Wusta, 4, 2 (Oct. 1992): 33-34. L.A. Ibrahim & M.M. Amin, Architectural Terms in Mamluk Documents, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 26, 1 (July 1992): 112-13.
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