The Architecture of Cairo, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW),

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307,

This class includes extensive and heavily illustrated lecture notes covering Cairo from the time of Alexander until the twentieth century. They are organized by major historical periods. This class also includes a glossary of terms found in the lecture notes.

Course Description
Cairo is the quintessential Islamic city. Founded in 634 at the strategic head of the Nile Delta, the city evolved from an Islamic military outpost to the seat of the ambitious Fatimid caliphate which flourished between the 10th and 12th century. Its most spectacular age, however, was the Mamluk period (1250-1517), when it became the uncontested center of a resurgent Islam and acquired an architectural character that symbolized the image of the Islamic city for centuries to come.