{"product_id":"the-minarets-of-cairo-islamic-architecture-from-the-arab-conquest-to-the-end-of-the-ottoman-empire-9781848855397","title":"The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Doris Behrens-Abouseif\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Buildings - Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinarets have defined Cairo's skyline since its early history: they are one of the most characteristic features of Islamic architecture. In Egypt, where civilizations have manifested themselves through awe-inspiring structures since antiquity, \"\"a thousand minarets\"\" reveal the impact of Islamic civilization and urban aesthetics. \u003ci\u003eThe Minarets of Cairo\u003c\/i\u003e offers an accessible and vivid insight into the religious, historical and architectural significance of the minaret in Cairo from the Arab Conquest, through the Abbasid, Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Students and scholars will welcome historian and art historian Doris Behrens-Abouseif's excellent new research and analysis as well as over one hundred illustrated entries for individual minarets, brought to life by Nicholas Warner's masterly architectural drawings and reconstructions. With nearly three hundred illustrations, this beautiful book provides depth and colour, displaying to full effect historic Cairo's most impressive monuments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I. B. Tauris \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45087392268439,"sku":"9781848855397","price":4494.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781848855397.webp?v=1767640376","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-minarets-of-cairo-islamic-architecture-from-the-arab-conquest-to-the-end-of-the-ottoman-empire-9781848855397","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}