Palaces and houses of Cairo IV.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 30847 |
| Format | 24.5 X 32.5 |
| Détails | 440 p., bound, publisher's cardboard. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724709667 |
An exceptional reissue of the last volume in the series Palaces and houses of Cairo .
Of the 600 palaces and houses recorded by the scholars of the Egyptian Expedition in 1800, 29 remained in 1970, listed in the Inventory of Historical Monuments. While some of these palaces have been remarkably restored, such as that of Emir Ṭāz or the Sennari house, others have continued to deteriorate and some have now disappeared. The plans and photographs that survive have thus acquired inestimable value.
The IFAO has decided to republish this pioneering study, published between 1972 and 1983. Very quickly sold out, Palaces and Houses of Cairo , the work of a specialist in the crafts and arts of the Maghreb and the Middle East and an architect involved in the restoration of some of these buildings, was a milestone in the heritage awareness that emerged in the 1990s around Islamic Cairo. The plans, architectural surveys and photographs that make up the work will allow the reader to rediscover the neighborhoods, streets, courtyards, rooms, passages and roofs of the last most beautiful palaces and bourgeois residences of Mamluk and Ottoman Cairo. This fourth volume presents three houses (the Šabšīrī House, the Harawī House and the al-Sādāt House) and three palaces (Gamal ad Din adh Dhahabi, ʿAli Katkhuda and Sitt Wassila) from the Ottoman period.
An exceptional reissue of the last volume in the series Palaces and houses of Cairo .
Of the 600 palaces and houses recorded by the scholars of the Egyptian Expedition in 1800, 29 remained in 1970, listed in the Inventory of Historical Monuments. While some of these palaces have been remarkably restored, such as that of Emir Ṭāz or the Sennari house, others have continued to deteriorate and some have now disappeared. The plans and photographs that survive have thus acquired inestimable value.
The IFAO has decided to republish this pioneering study, published between 1972 and 1983. Very quickly sold out, Palaces and Houses of Cairo , the work of a specialist in the crafts and arts of the Maghreb and the Middle East and an architect involved in the restoration of some of these buildings, was a milestone in the heritage awareness that emerged in the 1990s around Islamic Cairo. The plans, architectural surveys and photographs that make up the work will allow the reader to rediscover the neighborhoods, streets, courtyards, rooms, passages and roofs of the last most beautiful palaces and bourgeois residences of Mamluk and Ottoman Cairo. This fourth volume presents three houses (the Šabšīrī House, the Harawī House and the al-Sādāt House) and three palaces (Gamal ad Din adh Dhahabi, ʿAli Katkhuda and Sitt Wassila) from the Ottoman period.