Cairo Mamluk (ePub)

It is a book on the "Mamluk Amarah" after the demise of the Mamluk's rule .. How did the Mamluk architecture an extension in the following countries such as the Ottoman and Alawite state that fully rejected this model and then returned to it when it saw that it would be an example of the Egyptian identity independent of the Ottoman Empire and a perversion of the English occupation. The writer wondered: How was the association of the emergence of the Mamluk style in Egypt with political variables in Egypt as an incentive to consider an indirect tool for expressing the Egyptian nationalism in the hands of the royal ruling family? Why was it considered an Egyptian national model? Why was the Mamluk model specifically chosen? And who was this choice? How did the opinions of the Egyptian elite differed towards the Mamluk architecture in its modern form? Especially in that period between the historians of the expiration of the Mamluk rule 1517 AD at the hands of the Ottomans, until the end of the reign of King Fouad the first in 1936 AD, a stage that included successive fundamental changes witnessed by Egypt.
In the successive chapters, we follow the history of Islamic architecture in Egypt, from its arrival at the anchor of the architectural completion in the Mamluk era, then its appearance as an aesthetic appearance and external dandruff of modern facilities, to its complete decline today.