Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Islamic Architecture in Cairo

An Introduction

For architecture or history students or interested travellers, presents descriptions, histories, photographs, plans, and drawings of detail for buildi...

Beauty in Arabic Culture

A specialist in Islamic architecture and social history, Behrens-Abouseif (U. of Munich) surveys the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classica...

Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo

A Mamluk Obsession

In this book, Doris Behrens-Abouseif responds to the Mamluk chroniclers whose loquacity regarding clothing matters demands our attention. Using a mult...

Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate

Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World

Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy. In firm control of the medieval spice trade as well as the holy sites of Christ...

İslamic Architecture in Cairo

An Introduction

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Cairo of the Mamluks

A History of Architecture and Its Culture

"Cairo of the Mamluks was "a city beyond imagination", wrote the Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun. The Mamluk sultans originated as a slave-based caste wh...

Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule

Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries)

Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule deals with the impact of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt on its political, religious and social institutions, their t...

Cairo Of The Mamluks

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Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule

Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo, 16th and 17th Centuries

This book deals with the transition of Egypt from Mamluk to Ottoman rule, a subject that has not been investigated before; Waqf documents are a major ...

The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517)

Scribes, Libraries and Market

This book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princ...

Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate

Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World

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Muqarnas, Volume 21 - Essays in Honor of J.M. Rogers

An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World

Adel T. Adamova (translated by J.M. Rogers), The Iconography of A Camel FightNurhan Atasoy, Ottoman Garden Pavilions and TentsSerpil Bagci, Old Images...

The Minarets of Cairo

Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Period

Previous work with same title published in 1984 with far smaller scope and less attention to architecture....

Mamluk and Post-Mamluk Metal Lamps

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The Minarets of Cairo

Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Empire

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Metalwork from the Arab World and the Mediterranean

A remarkable collection of metalwork from the Mediterranean, Iraq, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent, published here for the first time. This volume, ...

Fatḥ Allāh and Abū Zakariyya

physicians under the Mamluks

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Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands

"The metalwork holdings in the Khalili Collection are wide ranging and diverse, dating from the 7th century to the 20th century, and covering most of ...