Printable Handouts:

• 1 - Egypt form Alexander to the Islamic Conquest
• 2 - Foundation of al-Fustat
• 3 - Abbasids and Tulunids (8th and 9th century)
• 4 - The Foundation of Fatimid al-Qahira
• 5 - Fatimid Mosques in Cairo
• 6 - Late Fatimid Period (1074-1171)
• 7 - The Ayyubid Period (1171-1250): The City and the Citadel
• 8 - Transforming the Religious Landscape of Cairo in the Ayyubid Period
• 9 - Early Mamluk Period
• 10 - The Reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (1293-1341)
• 11 - The Late Bahri Period (1341-82)
• 12 - The Development of Residential Architecture in Bahri Cairo
• 13 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the City
• 14 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the Northern Qarafa
• 15 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo: The Age of the Governors
• 16 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo: The Age of the Mamluk Beys
• 17 - Cairo From Napoleon to Muhammad `Ali
• 18 - The Modernization of Cairo
• 19 - Competing Neo Styles in the Early Twentieth Century
• 20 - Historicism in the Twentieth-Century Cairo

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