Architecture for the dead : Cairo's medieval necropolis / Galila El Kadi, Alain Bonnamy.

Main entry:

El Kadi, Galila, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture for the dead : Cairo's medieval necropolis / Galila El Kadi, Alain Bonnamy.

Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2007]

Description:

302 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
"An Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Edition."
"First published in French in 2001 under the title Le Cité des Morts"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and indexes.
Continuity and change in religious beliefs -- The southern necropolis : the Qarafa -- Bab al-Nasr : the wood necropolis -- The eastern necropolis : tombs of the caliphs -- City of the dead : a home for the homeless -- Heritage and challenges -- Where do we go from here? -- Chronology.

Summary:

"In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest - but elaborately decorated - wooden structures. The book also documents the modern settlement of the necropolis by families creating a space for the living in and among the tombs and architecture for the dead."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9774160746
9789774160745

Subject:

Cemeteries Egypt Cairo.
Sepulchral monuments Egypt Cairo.
Islamic architecture Egypt Cairo.
Cimetières Égypte Le Caire.
Monuments funéraires Égypte Le Caire.
Architecture islamique Égypte Le Caire.
Cemeteries.
Islamic architecture.
Sepulchral monuments.
Friedhof
Grabmal
Kyrkogårdar Egypten Kairo.
Islamisk arkitektur Egypten Kairo.
Egypt Cairo.
Kairo

Form/genre:

Bildband.

Added entries:

El Kadi, Galila. Le Cité des Morts.
Bonnamy, Alain, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256105
Call No.: BIB 186396
Status: Available

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