Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture by Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and its Culture

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

400 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction art challenging informative slow-paced
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                The Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun described Cairo under the Mamluks as "a city beyond imagination". The Mamluk sultans originated as a slave-based caste rose to rule in the mid-13th century. Accordingly, they designed their capital ...

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