Cairo: The City VictoriousFrom a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the Victorious"--has never ceased reinventing herself. With intimate knowlege, humor, and affection, Rodenbeck takes us on an insider's tour of the magnificent city: its backstreets and bazaars, its belly-dance theaters and hashish dens, its crowded slums and fashionable salons, its incomparably rich past and its challenging future. Cairo: The City Victorious is a unique blend of travel and history, an epic, resonant work that brings one of the world's great metropolises to life in all its dusty, chaotic beauty. |
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... Europe by storm . Others brought back the principles of Greek medicine and chemistry that Europe had forgotten but that the Arabs had translated , practiced , and improved on . From Muslim armies Europe picked up the trappings of ...
... Europe by storm . Others brought back the principles of Greek medicine and chemistry that Europe had forgotten but that the Arabs had translated , practiced , and improved on . From Muslim armies Europe picked up the trappings of ...
Page 102
... European cloth . Imports affected other industries in the same way . The number of sugar mills at Fustat , for instance , dropped from sixty - six in 1325 to nineteen in 1400 . In many ways it was the very success of the Mameluke ...
... European cloth . Imports affected other industries in the same way . The number of sugar mills at Fustat , for instance , dropped from sixty - six in 1325 to nineteen in 1400 . In many ways it was the very success of the Mameluke ...
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... European banks . Cairo boiled with indignation — not for love of Ismail , but out of wounded pride . Effendis joined with clerics and soldiers to protest against European interference and privilege . Orators expounded terms never heard ...
... European banks . Cairo boiled with indignation — not for love of Ismail , but out of wounded pride . Effendis joined with clerics and soldiers to protest against European interference and privilege . Orators expounded terms never heard ...
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Abbasid al-Azhar al-Fustat al-Jabarti al-Maqrizi al-Qahira al-Salih Ayyub amir ancient Arabic army Azbakiyya Bab Zuwayla Baghdad Baybars became began British building built café Cairenes Cairo Cairo University caliph capital century Christian Citadel city's Coptic Copts court crowd desert dinars donkey dynasty Egypt Egyptian European Farouk Fatimid foreign French Fustat Giza Greek Heliopolis houses Ibn Battuta Ibn Khaldun Islam Ismail Italian Jewish Jews khedive King Koran ladies land later live London Mameluke Mameluke sultan mawlid Mecca medieval Memphis miles million Misr al-Fustat modern mosque Muhammad Muqattam Muslim Naguib Mahfouz Nasser native night Nile officer Old City Ottoman palace Pasha peasants percent pharaoh police Press Prophet Ptah pyramids Qalawun quarters rayyis religious rich rule rulers Sadat Saladin Saqqara Shagar sheikh Shi'ite slave soldiers stone story streets temple tion tomb trade Umm Kulsoum urban veil village walls women