01907nam a22002897i 4500 176326 176326 20200205123246.0 200205t20162016nyuao||e |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789774167324 RM289.04 hardback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 726.20962 726.20962 OKA R O'Kane, Bernard, author. THE MOSQUES OF EGYPT / Bernard O'Kane Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2016 ©2016 xliv, 359 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 31 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume Includes index Bibliography : pages 344-356. Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 641. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built Africa's first mosque, one still in regular use today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt in a changing sequence of Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and modern styles. In this fully color-illustrated, large-format volume, a leading historian of Islamic art and culture celebrates the great variety of Egypt's mosques and related religious buildings, from the early congregational mosques, through the medieval mausoleum-madrasas, to the neighborhood mosques of the Ottoman and modern periods. With outstanding architectural photography and authoritative analytical texts, this book will be valued as the finest on the subject by scholars and general readers alike. Mosques Egypt Mosques Architecture Architecture, Modern Egypt ddc B 0 1 PPAK R 2020-02-16 R 726.20962 OKA A01633291 2020-02-16 00:00:00 B