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The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the end of the Ottoman Period Illustrated Edition

by Doris Behrens-Abouseif (Author), Bernard O'Kane (Photographer), Nicholas Warner (Contributor)
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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, 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 colour, displaying to full effect historic Cairo’s most impressive monuments.

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    1848855397
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1848855397
  3. Edition
    Illustrated
  4. Publisher
    I.B.Tauris
  5. Publication date
    November 15, 2010
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    8.78 x 1.7 x 13.23 inches
  8. Print length
    448 pages
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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 is widely acknowledged as the preeminent scholar on the architecture of Cairo, and a leading specialist on the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East. She previously taught at the American University in Cairo, Harvard University, and the universities of Freiburg and Munich in Germany. She has written a number of books on Islamic art and architecture in both English and German including Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture (I.B.Tauris), and Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. 

Nicholas Warner is an architect and architectural historian, trained at Cambridge University and Harvard University who has, since 1992, been involved in a number of projects to preserve sites of historical and archaeological interest in Cairo.  His books include Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue and Guide to the Gayer-Anderson Museum.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ I.B.Tauris; Illustrated edition (November 15, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1848855397
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1848855397
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.37 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.78 x 1.7 x 13.23 inches
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David Arbogast
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything one may wish to know about the minarets of Cairo, Egypt.
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018
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You can judge this book by its title as well as its cover. It is a thorough investigation of the minarets of Cairo, Egypt. It is limited to minarets only and does not address mosques and other Islamic structures. In some cases the minarets are now isolated, having lost their associated structure. The book is chronologically arranged with excellent discussions of the minarets supplemented with equally excellent photographs and drawings. Not all minarets are extant, nor have all lost minarets been covered. Where they are not extant archival photographs are provided or, at worst, measured drawings. Note also that the books is entirely focused on the minarets of Cairo, Egypt only and not on other Egyptian minarets or other minarets from other countries, except only peripherally when they have some bearing on our understanding of Cairene minarets.
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Huzefa Ali
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2014
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The quality of the book is much better than i had expected. The book gives detailed information in the subject of Minarets. A must buy for those who have interest in Islamic Architecture.
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