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020			_a9789774167324 _cRM289.04 _qhardback
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082	0	4	_223 _a726.20962
090			_a726.20962 _bOKA _dR
100	1		_aO'Kane, Bernard, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aTHE MOSQUES OF EGYPT / _cBernard O'Kane
264		1	_aCairo : _bThe American University in Cairo Press, _c2016
264		4	_c©2016
300			_axliv, 359 pages : _billustrations, photographs ; _c31 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
500			_aIncludes index
504			_aBibliography : pages 344-356.
520			_aLess 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.
650	1	0	_aMosques _zEgypt
650	2	0	_aMosques _xArchitecture
650	2	0	_aArchitecture, Modern _zEgypt
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