Ibn Tulun: His Lost City and Great Mosque - Hardcover
by Tarek Swelim
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Language:EnglishPublisher:American University in Cairo PressISBN-13:9789774166914ISBN-10:9774166914UPC:9789774166914Book Category:Architecture, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, ReligiousBook Topic:ReligiousSize:9.70 x 7.80 x 1.30 inchesWeight:3.0534Product ID:SCSGJ5WMXT
Ibn Tulun: His Lost City and Great Mosque
Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-84), the son of a Turkic slave in the Abbasid court of Baghdad, became the founder of the first independent state in Egypt since antiquity, and builder of Egypt's short-lived third capital of the Islamic era, al-Qata'i' and its great congregational mosque. After recounting the story of Ibn Tulun and his successors, architectural historian Tarek Swelim presents a topographic...
Language:EnglishPublisher:American University in Cairo PressISBN-13:9789774166914ISBN-10:9774166914UPC:9789774166914Book Category:Architecture, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Buildings, History, ReligiousBook Topic:ReligiousSize:9.70 x 7.80 x 1.30 inchesWeight:3.0534Product ID:SCSGJ5WMXT
Tarek Swelim obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic art and architecture from Harvard in 1994. He leads and lectures to American tour groups from prestigious institutions throughout Egypt, the Middle East, and North Africa, and he is the author or co-author of a number of publications on Cairo's Islamic and Roman architecture. He has taught at the American University in Cairo and Ain Shams University and...
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