| ISBN |
9774162447 (hbk.) |
| 9789774162442 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Creswell photographs re-examined : new perspectives on Islamic architecture / edited by Bernard O'Kane |
| Publisher |
Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2009 |
| Physical desc. |
xxiii, 332 p., [64] p. of plates ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Contents |
The citadel of Cairo in the Ayyubid period and the development of thirteenth-century fortifications: a reconsideration / Tarek Galal Abdel-Hamid -- An ode to remember: the Burda of al-Busiri in Cairene Ottoman houses / Noha Abou-Khatwa -- The mosque of Mustafa Shurbagi Mirza: reasserting Egypt's Mamluk roots / Conchita Añorve-Tschirgi -- The madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Shaʻban before and after Creswell / Dina Ishak Bakhoum -- Archival photography and the formulation of conservation policy: the case of Manzil Qaytbay / Nairy Hampikian and May al-Ibrashy -- The turba of Azdumur in the Northern Cemetary of Cairo / Hani Hamza -- The Mamluk mosque of Amir Husayn: a reconstruction / Chahinda Karim -- Modes of utilizing Qurʼanic inscriptions on Cairene Mamluk religious monuments / Dina Montasser -- The Great Mosque of Hama redux / Bernard O'Kane -- A study of the unintended in Creswell's photographs: the architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the continuity of building traditions / Seif El Rashidi -- The works of Sultan al-Ghuri in Khan al-Khalili: analysis and reconstruction of the covered market / Ola Seif -- Detecting the past: K.A.C. Creswell, photography, and the landscape of Cairo / Nicholas Warner. |
| Person as subject |
Creswell, K. A. C. (Keppel Archibald Cameron) Sir -- b. 1879 -- Photograph collections |
| Corporate name |
American University in Cairo -- Creswell Archive |
| Subject |
Islamic architecture -- Egypt -- Cairo |
| Architecture, Mameluke |
| Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Cairo (Egypt) |
| Decoration and ornament, Islamic -- Cairo (Egypt) |
| Cairo (Egypt) -- Antiquities |
| Cairo (Egypt) -- Buildings, structures, etc |
| Cairo (Egypt) -- History -- Pictorial works |
| Added name(s) |
O'Kane, Bernard ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
American University in Cairo |
| Ashmolean Museum. Dept. of Eastern Art |
