
Egypt Visual Sourcebook
Jim Hewitt
₹4,801

Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon
by Chahinda Karim, Menna El Mahy
American University in Cairo Press
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A unique, richly illustrated study of Ottoman religious buildings standing today in Cairo With the conquest in 1517 CE of Egypt by the Ottomans, Cairo lost its position as the capital of the Islamic empire to Istanbul but it retained an eminent position as the second most important city, with Egypt still regarded as one of the wealthiest provinces of the new empire.
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