Select Bibliography and Resources

Alsayyad, Nezar et.al. Making Cairo Medieval. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2005.

d'Avennes, Prisse and George Scanlon. Islamic Art in Cairo. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Cairo of the Mamluks. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Islamic Architecture in Cairo. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Clément, Alain et Thomas, Gilles et al. Atlas du Paris souterrain: La doublure sombre de la Ville lumière. Paris: Éditions Parigramme, 2001.

Chadych, Danielle et Leborgne, Dominque, Atlas de Paris: Evolution d'un paysage urbain. Paris: Éditions Parigramme, 1999.

Creswell, K.A.C. A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture. Beirut: Librarie du Liban, 1958.

Eaton, Charles (translator). The Book of Hadith. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Golia, Maria. Cairo: City of Sand. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2004.

Loyer, François. Paris Nineteenth Century Architecture and Urbanism. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Kadi, El, Galila and Alain Bonnamy. Architecture for the Dead: Cairo's Medieval Necropolis. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Khalidi, Tarif (translator). The Qur'an. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Khamissi, Khaled. Taxi. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Raymond, André, Cairo. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Rodenbeck, Max. Cairo: The City Victorious. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Rogan, Eugene. The Arabs: a History. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Sanders, Paula. Creating Medieval Cairo. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Sedky, Ahmed. Living with Heritage in Cairo. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2008.

Thompson, Jason. A History of Egypt. Oxford. Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Warner, Nicholas. The Monuments of Historic Cairo: a Map and Descriptive Catalog. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Williams, Caroline. Islamic Monuments in Cairo. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2008.

The Yacoubian Building ("omarat yakobean"). Dir. Marwan Hamed. Perf. Adel Imam, Nour al-Sharif, Youssri. 2006. DVD. Strand Releasing Home Video, 2007.

One Sunday, for apparently no specific reason other than it could do so, the Washington Post Newspaper published bright panoramas of the Egyptian landscape and of Egytpian monuments.

Panoramas and simple photographs of Egyptian artifacts and monuments at the French art site Insecula, which specializes in bringing museums and sites to the Internet.

Archnet is a website run by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University (His Royal Highness the Aga Khan is a Harvard alumnus.) One must be a member of the website to take advantage of it, but registration is free.

Here Archnet publishes Doris Beherns-Abouseif's guide to Cairene architecture in its entirety, chapter by chapter: Islamic Architecture in Cairo

And here is Archnet's collection of Cairene monuments.

The Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation keeps up the Islamic Art Network. In spite of the generalist title, it's Cairo-focused, It links the Bulletins of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe, a K.A.C.Creswell comparative photo exhibition, a large photo archive, and a glossary of Islamic architectural terms.

The volunteer site Museum with No Frontiers has placed plaques on select Cairene Islamic monuments, and shows a wider view of Islamic art on its website.

The indispensable American Center for Research in Egypt (ARCE or "AAR-see") has an hospitable Garden City staff, a library, and a lecture hall in Garden City,and an annual convention in the United States.

To conveniently convert Hijri to Gregorian dates, or to readily convert Gregorian to Hijri dates, go here.

For general interest, and the best source of deep truth in Egypt, there's El Koshary Today.

The following Internet sites are written and maintained by the Arab Republic of Egypt. Sadly, one can get a long-distance grasp of the universal disappointment and frustrations of dealing with Egyptian government by clicking: many are often horribly out-of-date or just flat don't load. For a state that derives no small component of its revenue from tourism, and might want to support independent and heritage tourism, this is simply not a strong development strategy.

Egypt's National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) does painstaking yeoman's work in documenting European Cairo. It has a friendly, seriously overworked and underpaid staff that will nonetheless look up the basic data for any building in the district that one can specifically describe.

The Arab Republic’s pages for Cairo's Islamic Monuments.

The Arab Republic’s pages for Cairo's Historic Maps.