ラウトレッジ版 カイロ・ハンドブック Routledge Handbook on Cairo : Histories, Representations and Discourses

AlSayyad, Nezar (EDT)

Routledge（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 438 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032300863
• DDC分類 962.16

Full Description

This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship.

Divided into three parts covering Histories, Representations and Discourses of Cairo, the chapters provide comprehensive coverage of Cairo from both a disciplinary and an interdisciplinary point of view, with scholars from a great range of disciplines. Part One contains chapters on the history of specific parts of the city to provide both a concise picture of Cairo and an appreciation for the diversity of its constituent parts and periods. Part Two of the book deals with the various forms of representations of the city, from high-end literature to popular songs, and from photographs to films. Finally, Part Three covers current discourses about the city, comprising historical reflections on the city from the present, surveys of its current condition, analysis of it serious urban problems and visions for its future.

The Routledge Handbook on Cairo provides a unique and innovative look at the ever-evolving state of Cairo. It will be a vital reference source for scholars and students of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Architecture and Politics.

Contents

Part 1: Histories

1.1. Cairo: The State of a City

Nezar AlSayyad

1.2. Al-Qata'iʿ: A Lost City in Cairo - Revisited

Tarek Swelim

1.3. Cairo as a Palace: Rituals of the Fatimid Caliphate

Ayman Fouad Sayyid

1.4. Building Mamluk Cairo: The Capital of a Sultanate

Omniya Abdel Barr

1.5. Coopting the Street: The Urban Character of Mamluk Architecture in Cairo

Nasser Rabbat

1.6. 1340 Years of Cairo's Medieval Necropolis

Galila El Kadi

1.7. Policing Cairo in the Nineteenth Century

Khaled Fahmy

1.8. Khedivial Cairo: The Genesis of the Modern City and the Prospects of its Downtown

Soheir Hawas

1.9. Tahrir Square: The Roundabout and the History of Modern Cairo

Mariam Abdelazim

Part 2: Representations

2.1. The Skylines of Cairo: A Photographic Essay

Karim Badr

2.2. The Earliest Images of Cairo's Islamic Architecture

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

2.3. Seeing Cairo Through Paris: Nineteenth Century Literary Observations by Egyptian Intellectuals

Kinda AlSamara

2.4. Sayings and Songs: On the Intangible Culture of Cairo

Ahmed O. El-Kholei

2.5. Cairo Through Her Eyes: Space and Gender Dynamics in Naguib Mahfouz's Bayn Al-Qasrayn

Mohammad Salama

2.6. The Judge, the Officer and the Demiurge: Figures and Figurations of Old Cairo

Ann Madoeuf

2.7. Cairo on Film: The Modernity of a Cinematic City

Nezar AlSayyad

2.8. Revolutionary Cairo: The City Still Remembers

Dina Ezzat

Part 3: Discourses

3.1. The Normalization of Hijab: Islamic Reveiling in Cairo

Sherifa Zuhur

3.2. Informal Cairo: The Making of an Urban Fabric

Ahmed M. Soliman

3.3. Cairo's Desert Backyard: The Future of an Ever-Growing Metropolis?

David Sims

3.4. (Re)Connecting with Wounded Spaces: Encountering Memory, Place and Narrative in Cairo's Historic Landscape

Gehan Selim

3.5. An Untold Urban Narrative: Transcending Gender, Culture and Modernity in Cairo's Old Quarters

Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

3.6. Rethinking Urban Transformations in Cairo: A View From 'Middle' Class Housing in al-Mohandiseen

Khaled Adham

3.7. Government Visions: A Planner's Perspective on the Remaking of Cairo

Sahar Attia

3.8. The Transformation of Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Cairo: A Diary from Tahrir, 2011-2013

Mona Abaza