During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed one of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a 'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual city—physically and psychically split between East/West and modern/medieval—the contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.

During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed once of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a 'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual city—physically and psychically split between East/West and modern/medieval—the contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.

Chapter 1 Prologue: The Project of Making Cairo Medieval
Chapter 2 A Medieval City for a Modern World
Chapter 3 Disciplining the Eye: Perceiving Medieval Cairo
Chapter 4 The Medieval Link: Maqrizi's Khitat and Modern Narratives of Cairo
Chapter 5 'Ali Mubarark's Egypt: Between the Testimony of 'Alamuddin and the Imaginary of the Khitat
Chapter 6 Representing and Narrating
Chapter 7 Performing Cairo: Orientalism and the City of the Arabian Nights
Chapter 8 Nineteenth-Century Images of Cairo: From the Real to the Interpretive
Chapter 9 The Museum of What You Shall Have Been
Chapter 10 Disciplining and Making
Chapter 11 Nineteenth-Century Cairo: A Dual City?
Chapter 12 Modernizing Cairo: A Revisionist Narrative
Chapter 13 Medievalization of the Old City as an Ingredient of Cairo's Modernization: Case Study of Bab Zuwayla
Chapter 14 The Cemeteries of Cairo and the Comité de Conservation