Lecture Notes

Part 1 - Beginnings - History, Geography, and Religion
Lec 1: Early Egypt.

1 - Egypt from Alexander to the Islamic Conquest
Lec 2: al-Fustat.

2 - Foundation of al-Fustat
Lec 3: Abbasids and Tulunids.

3 - Abbasids and Tulunids (8th and 9th Century)

 

Part 2 - Age of the Caliphate - The Fatimids
Lec 4: Fatimid al-Qahira.

4 - The Foundation of Fatimid al-Qahira
Lec 5: Fatimid Mosques.

5 - Fatimid Mosques in Cairo
Lec 6: Late Fatimid.


6 - Late Fatimid Period (1074-1171)

 

Part 3 - Rise to Prominence - Ayyubids and Bahri Mamluks
Lec 7: Ayyubid.

7 - The Ayyubid Period (1171-1250) - The City and the Citadel
Lec 8: Religious Ayyubid Cairo.

8 - Transforming the Religious Landscape of Cairo in the Ayyubid Period
Lec 9: Early Mamluk.

9 - Early Mamluk Period (1250-90)
Lec 10: The Reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (1293-1341)

10 - The Reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (1293-1341)
Lec 11: Late Bahri.

11 - The Late Bahri Period (1341-82)
Lec 12: Residential Cairo.

12 - The Development of Residential Architecture in Bahri Cairo

 

Part 4 - Afterglow of Empire - Burji Mamluks and Ottomans
Lec 13: Burji Mamluk.

13 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the City
Lec 14: Northern Qarafa.

14 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the Northern Qarafa
Lec 15: Ottoman Cairo.

15 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo - The Age of the Governors
Lec 16: Mamluk Beys.

16 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo - The Age of the Mamluk Beys

 

Part 5 - Modernization and After - Muhammad ‘Ali to the Present
Lec 17: Napoleon to Muhammad 'Ali.

17 - Cairo From Napoleon to Muhammad `Ali
Lec 18: Modernization.

18 - The Modernization of Cairo
Lec 19: Neo Styles.

19 - Competing Neo Styles in the Early Twentieth Century
Lec 20: Historicism.

20 - Historicism in Twentieth-Century Cairo