Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Syria, Egypt and North Africa

Michael Greenhalgh (PhD Manchester, 1968) is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Australian National University. He is the author of many books and articles dealing with the attractions and reuse of ancient marble architecture, and with the antiquities of the Middle East and North Africa.

• ContentsPreface to the Three Volumes ixList of Illustrations xi1 Introduction1 The Crusades and Their Impact2 Contacts Through Trade3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism5 Jerusalem and Cairo6 The survival of Islam7 Muslims, Christians and Jews8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East9 Arrangement of the Book2 Syria and the Holy Land1 Mosques and How to Enter Them2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas3 Acre: Djezzar’s Mosque4 Baalbek5 Damascus6 Gaza and Nablus7 Hebron8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq)9 Jerusalem10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments11 Ramla/Rama12 Sidon3 Alexandria and Cairo1 Alexandria’s Mosques2 Alexandria’s and Cairo’s Reuse of Antiquities3 The Pyramids4 Cairo5 Boulaq6 The Delights of the Citadel7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries8 Cairo, Odernism and Islamic Survivals4 North Africa1 Setting the Scene2 Algeria3 Could Arabic Architecture Survive in (French) Algeria?4 Algiers (Occupied 1830)5 Bougie (Occupied 1833)6 Constantine (Occupied 1837)7 Tlemcen Environs and Its Monuments8 Tlemcen City (Occupied 1836)9 The Oasis of Sidi Okba10 Morocco11 Fez12 Photography in Fez and Elsewhere13 Marrakesh/Morocco14 Mequinez/Meknès15 Salee, Rabat and Shellah16 Tangier17 Tetuan18 Tunisia (French Protectorate 1881–1956)19 Gafsa and Béja20 Kairouan21 Sousse and Environs22 Testour23 Tunis24 Libya25 Tripoli in Barbary5 Exhibiting Islamic Lands: Trade, Travel and Empire1 Overview2 Easier and Cheaper Travel3 Artists, Exhibitions and Moving Images4 Dancing in the Cairo Street5 Paris 1867 and Dancing GirlsBibliography – SourcesBibliography – Modern ScholarsIndexIllustrations