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Informationen zum Autor Bernard O’Kane is professor of Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo. He is the editor of The Treasures of Islamic Art (AUC Press, 2006) and Creswell Photographs Re-examined (AUC Press, 2009), and author of The Illustrated Guide to the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (AUC Press, 2012). Klappentext 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 641. 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. In this fully color-illustrated, large-format volume, 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. Vorwort A magnificent fully color-illustrated celebration of Egypt’s Islamic architectural heritage Zusammenfassung 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. In this fully color-illustrated, large-format volume, 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 analytical texts, this book will be valued as the finest on the subject by scholars and general readers alike. Covers more than 80 of the country’s most historic mosques, with more than 500 color photographs, in 400 pages. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Mosque of ‘Amr (Cairo, 641–twenty-first century) Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Cairo, 876–79) Mosque of al-Azhar (Cairo, 970–72 and later) Mosque of al-Hakim (Cairo, 990–1013) Mashhad of al-Juyushi (Cairo, 1085) Three Minarets: ‘Amri Mosque (Esna, 1081); Mashhad al-Bahri (Shallal, eleventh century); al-Mujahadin Mosque (Asyut, 1708) Mosque of Hasan ibn Salih (Bahnasa, twelfth century and later) Mosque of al-Aqmar (Cairo, 1125) Mosque of al-‘Amri (Qus, 1155–56 and later) Mosque of al-Salih Tala’i‘ (Cairo, 1160) ...
