Author: Charles Frederick TweneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Standard Books
Author: Charles Frederick TweneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Parish-Watson Collection of Mohammedan Potteries
Author: Rudolf Meyer RiefstahlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islamic pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Relating to Architecture, Construction & Decoration
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Trübner's Record
Author: Routledge Handbook on Cairo
Author: Nezar AlSayyadPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000787893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship. Divided into three parts covering Histories, Representations and Discourses of Cairo, the chapters provide comprehensive coverage of Cairo from both a disciplinary and an interdisciplinary point of view, with scholars from a great range of disciplines. Part One contains chapters on the history of specific parts of the city to provide both a concise picture of Cairo and an appreciation for the diversity of its constituent parts and periods. Part Two of the book deals with the various forms of representations of the city, from high-end literature to popular songs, and from photographs to films. Finally, Part Three covers current discourses about the city, comprising historical reflections on the city from the present, surveys of its current condition, analysis of it serious urban problems and visions for its future. The Routledge Handbook on Cairo provides a unique and innovative look at the ever-evolving state of Cairo. It will be a vital reference source for scholars and students of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Architecture and Politics.
Trübner's American, European, & Oriental Literary Record
Author: Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Creswell Photographs Re-examined
Author: Bernard O'KanePublisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774162442
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book uses photographs as documentary evidence to study Islamic architecture. The Creswell photographic archive at the American University in Cairo is an invaluable resource of over 12,000 printed images of Islamic architecture, mainly in Cairo, but also including buildings in other important cities such as Cordoba and Baghdad. Creswell's own photographs constitute the majority of the collection, but he also assembled work by photographers active in the decades before he began his systematic recording in the 1920s.
American Arabesque
Author: Jacob Rama BermanPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789501
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.