Courses:

Part 1 - Beginnings - History, Geography, and Religion

1 - Egypt from Alexander to the Islamic Conquest

2 - Foundation of al-Fustat

3 - Abbasids and Tulunids (8th and 9th Century)

Part 2 - Age of the Caliphate - The Fatimids

4 - The Foundation of Fatimid al-Qahira

5 - Fatimid Mosques in Cairo

6 - Late Fatimid Period (1074-1171)

Part 3 - Rise to Prominence - Ayyubids and Bahri Mamluks

7 - The Ayyubid Period (1171-1250) - The City and the Citadel

8 - Transforming the Religious Landscape of Cairo in the Ayyubid Period

9 - Early Mamluk Period (1250-90)

10 - The Reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (1293-1341)

11 - The Late Bahri Period (1341-82)

12 - The Development of Residential Architecture in Bahri Cairo

Part 4 - Afterglow of Empire - Burji Mamluks and Ottomans

13 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the City

14 - Burji Mamluk Architecture in the Northern Qarafa

15 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo - The Age of the Governors

16 - Ottoman Architecture in Cairo - The Age of the Mamluk Beys

Part 5 - Modernization and After - Muhammad ‘Ali to the Present

17 - Cairo From Napoleon to Muhammad `Ali

18 - The Modernization of Cairo

19 - Competing Neo Styles in the Early Twentieth Century

20 - Historicism in Twentieth-Century Cairo