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Book SynopsisThis volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.
Table of ContentsContents Preface to the Three Volumes ix List of Illustrations xi 1 Introduction 1 The Crusades and Their Impact 2 Contacts Through Trade 3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire 4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism 5 Jerusalem and Cairo 6 The survival of Islam 7 Muslims, Christians and Jews 8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East 9 Arrangement of the Book 2 Syria and the Holy Land 1 Mosques and How to Enter Them 2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas 3 Acre: Djezzar’s Mosque 4 Baalbek 5 Damascus 6 Gaza and Nablus 7 Hebron 8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq) 9 Jerusalem 10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments 11 Ramla/Rama 12 Sidon 3 Alexandria and Cairo 1 Alexandria’s Mosques 2 Alexandria’s and Cairo’s Reuse of Antiquities 3 The Pyramids 4 Cairo 5 Boulaq 6 The Delights of the Citadel 7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries 8 Cairo, Odernism and Islamic Survivals 4 North Africa 1 Setting the Scene 2 Algeria 3 Could Arabic Architecture Survive in (French) Algeria? 4 Algiers (Occupied 1830) 5 Bougie (Occupied 1833) 6 Constantine (Occupied 1837) 7 Tlemcen Environs and Its Monuments 8 Tlemcen City (Occupied 1836) 9 The Oasis of Sidi Okba 10 Morocco 11 Fez 12 Photography in Fez and Elsewhere 13 Marrakesh/Morocco 14 Mequinez/Meknès 15 Salee, Rabat and Shellah 16 Tangier 17 Tetuan 18 Tunisia (French Protectorate 1881–1956) 19 Gafsa and Béja 20 Kairouan 21 Sousse and Environs 22 Testour 23 Tunis 24 Libya 25 Tripoli in Barbary 5 Exhibiting Islamic Lands: Trade, Travel and Empire 1 Overview 2 Easier and Cheaper Travel 3 Artists, Exhibitions and Moving Images 4 Dancing in the Cairo Street 5 Paris 1867 and Dancing Girls Bibliography – Sources Bibliography – Modern Scholars Index Illustrations
