Cairo’sIslamicMonuments/Dr.Saleh/OLLISummer2017Chronology:

• Pharaonic:3100–332BCE• Classical&Byzantine:332BCE–641CE• MedievalIslamic:641–1517CE

o Islamic:641–969CEo Fatimid:969–1171CEo Ayyubid:1171–1250CEo Mamluk:1250–1517CE

• Ottoman:1517–1882CEo MohammedAli1805–1848CEo OpeningofSuezCanal1869CE

• BritishOccupation:1882–1953CEo KingFuad1917–1936CEo KingFarouk1936–1952CEo EgyptianRevolution1953CE

• ArabRepublicofEgypt:1954–present

UsefulResources:AlSayyad,Nezar.2001.Cairo:HistoriesofaCity.Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress.Antoniou,Jim.1998.HistoricCairo:AWalkThroughtheIslamicCity.Cairo:AmericanUniversityinCairoPress.Haag,Michael.2006.CairoIllustrated.Cairo:AmericanUniversityinCairoPress.Raymond,Andre.2000.Cairo.Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress.Rodenbeck,Max.2000.Cairo:TheCityVictorious.NewYork:VintagePress.Williams,Caroline.2008.IslamicMonumentsinCairo:ThePracticalGuide.Cairo:AmericanUniversityinCairoPress.www.archnet.orgwww.islamic-art.org

Cairo’sIslamicMonuments/Dr.Saleh/OLLISummer2017

From:Williams,Caroline.2008.IslamicMonumentsinCairo:ThePracticalGuide.Cairo:AmericanUniversityinCairoPress,p.25,30,33.

Cairo’sIslamicMonuments/Dr.Saleh/OLLISummer2017

From:Antoniou,Jim.1998.HistoricCairo:AWalkThroughtheIslamicCity.Cairo:AmericanUniversityinCairoPress,p.36.

Cairo’sIslamicMonuments/Dr.Saleh/OLLISummer2017Vocabulary:Bab:door,entrance,gatewayBayt:home,residenceHammam:bath,bathhouseHaramlik:“forbiddentoyou,”privateorwomen’squartersHosh:courtyardIwan:vaultedspacesKufic:earlieststyleofArabicscriptKuttab:KoranicschoolforyoungboysMadrasa:school,theologicalschoolMashrabiya:woodenlatticescreenMidan:citysquareMihrab:nicheinthewallofamosquethatdenotesthedirectiontoMeccaMinaret:towerfromwhichdailycalltoprayerismadeMinbar:pulpitfromwhichimamdeliversasermonQibla:“orientation,”directiontoMecca,usedforprayerQubba:domeSabil:publicwaterfountain/dispensary