02264cam a22003375a 4500 19627822 EG-ScBUE 20221214122029.0 170509s2016 ua ae f bd 001 0 eng d 9789774167324 9774167325 (OCoLC)ocn919186646 YDXCP eng rda YDXCP OCLCQ BDX VA@ YDX MZA OCLCF GBVCP OCLCO GZM IUL VMI WTU UAB DLC EG-ScBUE f-ua--- 726.20962 OKA 22 O'Kane, Bernard, author. 23650 The mosques of Egypt / Bernard O'Kane. Cairo ; New York : The American University In Cairo Press, 2016. xliv, 359 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Includes glossary. Includes bibliographical references and index. Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 639. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built Africa's first mosque, one still in regular use today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt in a changing sequence of Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and modern styles. Here, a leading historian of Islamic art and culture celebrates the great variety of Egypt's mosques and related religious buildings, from the early congregational mosques, through the medieval mausoleum--madrasas, to the neighborhood mosques of the Ottoman and modern periods. With outstanding architectural photography and authoritative descriptive texts, this book will be valued as the finest on the subject by scholars and general readers alike. Includes more that 80 of the country's most historic mosques, with more than 500 color photographs. -- Inside jacket flap. Mosques Egypt Pictorial works. BUEsh Islamic architecture Egypt Pictorial works. BUEsh ENGARC GGEN February2019 Reading book ddc BB 27192 27164 0 0 ddc 0 0 AUC MAIN MAIN LOW 2019-02-25 Purchase 600.00 16583 0 726.20962 OKA 000044306 2025-07-15 00:00:00 750.00 2019-02-25 NB