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Some Cairo Mosques, and Their Founders

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE EPOCH OF SULTAN QAITBAY ""HE name of EI-Malek el-Ashraf Abul Nasr Qaitbay has become identified with that of a whole epoch to which Cairo owes a great number of graceful monuments. Built either by the Sultan himself or by the rich Emirs of his court who wished to imitate him whilst glorifying themselves, these monuments, of which the mausoleum in the eastern cemetery is the prototype,1 are fairly homogeneous in style, and that style has accordingly become known by the name of Qaitbay: their number and charm certainly bear witness to the Mameluke Sultan's refined taste and energetic enterprise. 1 See, for a detailed description of this masterpiece, "Die Grab-Moschee des Sultans Kaid Bey" by Franz Pasha, in Die Baukunst. It is also described in most books dealing with Cairo architecture, such as Lane-Poole's Cairo (Mediaeval Towns); Gayet's Art Arabe; Margoliouth's Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus; Saladin's Architecture Musulmane, etc. etc. Gayet, whose imaginative Art Arabe contains such attractive descriptions, tainted, alas, by so many inaccuracies, fancies that an approaching decadence is perceptible in the architecture of the fifteenth century. He sees in it " the frail languor and subtle delicacy of that which has received its death-blow." After a very detailed account of the chief points to be observed in the exterior and interior aspects of a fifteenth century mosque built by a Circassian or Bordjite mameluke as compared to one dating from the so-called Baharite dynasty (thirteenth to fourteenth centuries), Gayet thus speaks of the minaret and the dome. "The minaret and the dome were particularly adapted to personify the spirit of the times and, on them, the builder's talent became chiefly concentrated. Already under Qalaun and Beyba...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151328229
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151328227
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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