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1. Cairo of the Mamluks
by Doris Behrens-Abouseif 
Price: USD 67.10
Dealer: Alibris, Pumpkin Wholesale Ltd via Alibris
Description: AMER UNIV IN CAIRO 2008 Hardcover During two and a half centuries of rule by Mamluk sultans, Cairo acquired some of its most impressive medieval architecture, including the historical monuments that today define the city's architectural heritage. In this comprehensive work of analysis and description, Islamic art historian Doris Behrens-Abouseif highlights the most important factors in the evolution of Mamluk urban architecture, along with the social and political reasons for their patronage as builders of mosques, schools, hospitals, and mausolea. Copiously illustrated with color photographs and architectural plans, Cairo of the Mamluks highlights sixty of the most important Mamluk buildings in Cairo, in chronological order, from the mausoleum built by Shagar al-Durr, in honor of her late husband, the last Ayyubid ruler, to the magnificent madrasa of Sultan Hasan and the funerary complex of al-Ghuri, the last powerful Mamluk sultan. Long a scholar of Cairo's historic architecture, Doris Behrens-Abouseif draws on Arabic chronicles as well as the latest in contemporary scholarship to offer a remarkably complete history of Cairo's justly-famous monuments. 

2. Cairo of the Mamluks : a history of the architecture and its culture
by Doris Behrens-Abouseif 
Price: USD 257.69
Dealer: AbebooksUK, Joseph Burridge Books
Description: ISBN10: 9774160770, ISBN13: 9789774160776, [publisher: The American University in Cairo Press] Hardcover xix, 359 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 30 cm. [Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]  

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