TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Kane,Bernard
TI  - THE MOSQUES OF EGYPT
SN  - 9789774167324
U1  - 726.20962 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cairo
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Mosques
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Architecture, Modern
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography : pages 344-356
N2  - 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
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