Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon brown ISBN-13: 978-0593237489

ISBN-13: 978-0593237489

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Print length: 242 pages

Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon brown ISBN-13: 978-0593237489A 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. Round minarets with pointed hoods, as symbols of the new rulers, began filling the