The minarets of Cairo : Islamic architecture from the Arab conquest to the end of the Ottoman empire
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The minarets of Cairo : Islamic architecture from the Arab conquest to the end of the Ottoman empire
I.B. Tauris, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-348) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Foreword
Note to the Reader
Introduction
CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE MINARET
Chapter 1: The Call to Prayer (adhan) and the Muezzin
Chapter 2: Function and use
Chapter 3: Evolution
Chapter 4: Placement
Chapter 5: Construction and Materials
Chapter 6: Architecture and Decoration
Chapter 7: Epigraphy
Chapter 8: The Minaret Depicted
THE HISTORIC MINARETS OF CAIRO
Chapter 9: Early History and Formation
1-The Mosque of ?Amr Ibn al-?As
2-The Mosque of Ibn Tulun 879
3-The Azhar Mosque
4-The Mosque of the Caliph al-Hakim bi Amr Allah 1010
5-The Mosque of al-Juyushi 1085
6-The shrine of Abu 'l-Ghadanfar 1157
7-The Ayyubid Minaret at the Shrine of al-Husayn, 1237
8-The Madrasa of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub 1245
Chapter 10: The Mamluk Minarets
9-*The Madrasa of Shajar al-Durr 1250
10-The Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars
11-The Madrasa of Fatima Khatun 1284
12-The Complex of Sultan Qalawun 1284-5
13-The Minaret of the Zawiyat al-Hunud 1260-90
14-*The ribat of Shaykh Sulayman al-Rifa?i 1297
15-The Mausoleum of Shaykh al-Baqli 1297
16-The Madrasa of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad 1304
17-The Funerary Complex of Emir Sanjar al-Jawli 1304
18-The Khanqah of Sultan al-Muzaffar Baybars (al-Jashnakir) 1308
19-*The minaret of Princess (Khawand) Zahra mid fourteenth century
20-The Madrasa of Sunqur al-Sa?di (Hasan Sadaqa) 1315
21-The Mosque of al-Nasir Muhammad at the Citadel 1318
22-The Mosque of Emir Bashtak 1336
23-The Khanqah of Emir Qawsun 1336-7
24-The "Southern" Minaret 1330-40's
25-The Minaret of Emir Aqbugha at the Azhar Mosque 1339
26-The Mosque of Emir Altinbugha al-Maridani 1340
27-The Mausoleum Emir Baydar al-Aydumuri 1346
28-The Mosque of Emir Aqsunqur 1347
29- The Mosque of Emir Manjaq al-Yusufi 1349-50
30-The Mosque and Khanqah of Emir Shaykhu, 1349, 1355
31-The Madrasa of Emir Sarghitmish 1356
32-The Sultaniyya mausoleum 1350s
33-The Mosque of Sultan Hasan 1356
34-The Madrasa of Princess Tatar al-Hijaziyya 1360
35-The Khanqah of Emir Tankizbugha 1362
36-The Madrasa of Sultan Sha?ban's mother (Umm al-Sultan Sha?ban) 1368-9
37-The Madrasa of Emir Asanbugha 1370
38-The Madrasa of Emir Uljay al-Yusufi 1373
39-The Mosque of Sultan Barquq 1386
40-The Madrasa of Emir Jamal al-Din Mahmud (al-Kurdi) 1395
41-The Mamluk Minaret at the Aqmar Mosque 1397 or 1412
42-*The Madrasa of Emir Sudun Min Zada 1401
43-The Mosque of the khanqah Sultan Faraj Ibn Barquq 1411
44-The Mosque of Emir Qanibay al-Muhammadi 1413
45-The Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh 1419-20
46-The Mosque of Qadi ?Abd al-Basit 1420
47-The Mosque of Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay 1425
48-The Mosque of Emir Janibak al-Ashrafi 1427
49-The Mosque of Emir Fayruz 1426-7
50-The Mosque of Shaykh ?Ali al-?Imari 1429-8
51-*The Mosque of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghamri 1440
52- The Mosque of Emir Qaraquja al-Hasani 1442
53- The Mosque of the Mosque of Qanibay al-Jarkasi 1442
54-The Madrasa of the Mosque of Emir Taghribirdi 1444
55-The Mosques of Qadi Yayha Zayn al-Din on the Khalij and at Bulaq1448-9
56-The Madrasa of Sultan Jaqmaq 1451
57-*The Mosque of Jaqmaq at Dayr al-Nahas before 1453
58-The minaret at the Mosque of al-Ruway?i 1440's-50's
59-The Minaret at the Mosque of Emir Arghunshah al-Isma?ili 1450s
60- The Mosque of Sultan Inal 1451-4
61-The Mosque of Qadi Yayha at Habbaniyya 1452-3
62- *The Minaret at the Mosque of Emir Husayn 1462
63- The Mosque of Emir Tanam Rasas before 1463
64-* The Mosque of Shaykh (Sidi )Madyan 1465
65-*The Mosque of Emir Qanim al-Tajir 1466
66-The Mosque of Emir Mughulbay Taz 1466
67-The Mosque of Emir Bardabak al-Ashrafi 1468
68-The Mosque of Sultan Qaytbay in the Cemetery 1474
69- The Mosque of Sultan Qaytbay at Qal?at al-Ka
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