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Egypt

Abd el-Hady, Mohammed. "Ground Water and the Deterioration of Islamic Buildings in Egypt," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 115-25. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Abdel Gawad, A. A., et. al. "Structural Aspects of Damage to Islamic Monuments," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 126-42. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Abo el-Ela, Abd el-Zaher A. "The Impact of Environmental Pollution on the Mosque of al-Azhar and the Complex of al-Ghuri," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 99-114. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Adams, Matthew Douglas. Community and Soceity in Egypt in the First Intermediate Period: An Archaeological Investigation of the Abydos Settlement Site. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2005.

Adham, Khaled Nezar. The Building Border: a Hermeneutical Study in the Cultural Politics of Space in Egypt, The Case of El-Houd El-Marsoud Park in Cairo. Ph.D., Texas A & M University, 1997.

Ahmed, Heba Farouk. Pre-Colonial Modernity: The State and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Cairo's Urban Form. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

Ako-Adounvu, Gifty Natalie. Studies in the Iconography of Blacks in Roman Art. Ph.D., McMaster University, 1999.

Aldred, Cyril. Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharoahs, 3100-320 B.C. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.

AlSayyad, Nezar. Streets of Islamic Cairo: A Configuration of Urban Themes and Patterns. Cambridge, MA: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, 1981.

AlSayyad, Nezar, Irene A. Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat, eds. Making Cairo Medieval. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

Ammoun, Denise. Crafts of Egypt. Photography by Jean-Louis Bersuder. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1991.

Andrews, Carol. Amulets of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 1994.

Andrews, Carol. Egyptian Mummies. London: British Museum Press, 1984.

Bacharach, Jere L., ed. The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Barbash, Yekaterina. The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem: Walters Art Museum 551. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., 2006.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of Architecture and Its Culture. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. Leidon: Brill, 1989.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. The Minarets of Cairo. Cairo: AUC, 1985.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. "Muhandis, Shad, Mu’allim – Note on the Building Craft in the Mamluk Period." Der Islam 72, No. ii (1995): pp. 293-309.

Biedronska-Slotowa, B. "Early 15th-Century Byzantine and Mamluk Textiles from Wawel Cathedral, Cracow." Bulletin du Centre International d’Etudes des Textiles Anciens (Lyons) 72 (1994): pp. 13-19.

Bierman, Irene A. Urban Memory and the Preservation of Monuments," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 1-12. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Brandenurg, D. Islamische Baukunst in Ägypten. Berlin: Hessling, 1966.

Briggs, M. S. Muhammadan Architecture in Egypt and Palestine. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.

Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene Lynn. "Your Cell Will Teach You All Things": The Relationship Between Monastic Practice and the Architectural Design of the Cell in Coptic Monasticism, 400-1000. Ph.D., Miami University, 2001.

Cannon-Brown, Willie. Aesthetic Ideal in Kemet: An Afrocentric Examination. Ph.D., Temple U., 2005.

Chauvet, Violaine. The Conception of Private Tombs in the Late Old Kingdom. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2004.

Creswell, K. A. C. The Muslim Architecture of Egypt. 2 vols. New York, NY: Hacker Art Books, 1979.

Cramer, M. Das altägyptische Lebenszeichen im christlichen (koptischen) Ägypten. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1955.

Cramer, M. Koptische Buchmalerei: Illuminationen in Manuskripten des christlichen-koptischen Ägypten vom 4. bis 19 Jahrhundert. Recklinghausen: A Bongers, 1964.

Croci, Giorgio. "Safety Evaluation and Restoration Techniques of Islamic Monuments," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 153-72. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Descendre, N. "Nouveau retour d’Egypte: Hassan Fathy, grand champiin de l’architecture sans architecte." L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 261 (Fall 1989): pp. 21-24.

Dobrolowski, Jaroslaw. "A Polish-Egyptian Restoration Project at the Eastern Cemetery in Cairo," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 76-79. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Eaton, Katherine. The Ritual Functions of Processional Equipment in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos. Ph.D., New York U., 2004.

Elzeyadi, Ihab M. K. Ten Palaces Tell Their Stories: Environmental Quality Assessment of Offices Inside Adaptively Re-Used Historical Palaces in Cairo, Egypt. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2001.

Fanfoni, Giuseppe. "The Italian-Egyptian Restoration Center's Work in the Mevlevi Complex in Cairo," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 59-75. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Feeney, J. "Fortress on the Mountain." Aramco World 44, No. 2 (1993): pp. 32-39.

Fernandes, Leonor. The Evolution of a Sufi Institution in Mamluk Egypt: The Khanqah. Berlin: Klaus Schwartz, 1988.

"The First International Seminar on Crafts in Traditional Islamic Architecture with Special Focus on Mushrabiyya and Stucco Coloured Glass Held in Cairo, Egypt, on 3-9 December 1995." IRCICA Newsletter 39 (1996): pp. 11-16.

Fowler, Daryl. "Conservation Priorities in Cairo Today," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 13-16. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Frankfurter, David. "The Binding of Antelopes: A Coptic Frieze and its Egyptian Religious Context." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 63, no. 2 (April 2004): 97-109.

Galey, John. Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980.

Garcin, Jean-Claude, et. al. Palais et maisons du Caire, I. Epoque mamelouke. Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982.

Gates, Jennifer Erin. Traveling the Desert Edge: The Ptolemaic Roadways and Regional Economy of Egypt's Eastern Desert in the Fourth Through First Centuries BCE. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2005.

Ghaly, Dina. The Shari' al-A'zam in Cairo: Its Topography and Architecture in the Mamluk Period. Ph.D., U. of Toronto, 2004.

Hampikian, Nairy. "Restoration of the Mausoleum of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 46-58. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Hanna, Nelly. An Urban History of Bulaq in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1983.

Al-Harithy, Howyda N. Urban Form and Meaning in Bahri Mamluk Architecture. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1992.

Harwig, Melinda K. Institutional Patronage and Social Commemoration in Theban Tomb Painting During the Reigns of Thutmose IV (1419-1410 B.C.) And Amenhotep III (1410-1382 B.C.). Ph.D., New York University, 2000.

Hassan, Fekri A. "Rock Art: Cognitive Schemata and Symbolic Interpretation, A Matter of Life and Death," in L'arte e l'ambiente del Sahara preistorico: dati e interpretazioni edited by Giulio Calegari, pp. 269-282. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 26, Fasc. 2. Milan: Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 1993.

Hautecoeur, L. and G. Wiet. Les Mosquées du Caire. 2 vols. Paris: E. Leroux, 1932.

Hunt, L-A. "Churches of Old Cairo and Mosques of Al-Qahira: A Case of Christian-Muslim Interchange." Medieval Encounters 2, No. i (1996): pp.43-66.

Ibrahim, Laila ‘Ali. "Residential Architecture in Mamluk Cairo." In Muqarnas 2 (1984): pp. 47-60.

Kaiser, Kevin Robert. Water, Milk, Beer and Wine for the Living and Dead: Egyptian and Syro-Palestinian Bes-vessels from the New Kingdom Through the Graeco-Roman Period. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

Karaesmen, Erhan and Engin Karaesmen. "A Structural Assessment of Old Domed Masonry Buildings in Seismic Zones," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 173-9. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Karnouk, Liliane. Modern Egyptian Art: 1910-2003. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2005.

Karnouk, Liliane. Modern Egyptian Art: The Emergence of a National Style. Forward by P. J. Vatikiotis. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1988.

Keita, S. O. Y. "Early Nile Valley Farmers from El-Badari: Aboriginals or European Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered with Other Data." Journal of Black Studies 36, no. 2 (Nov. 2005): pp. 191-208.

Kubiak, Wladyslaw B. Al-Fustat: Its Foundation and Early Urban Development. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1987.

Lacovara, Peter, ed. The Collector's Eye: Egyptian Art from the Thalassic Collection, Ltd. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.

Lamei, Saleh. "Restoration of the Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars in Cairo," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 143-52. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Leiris, Michel. "Mission de Mohamed Galal en Basse-Egypte et au Soudan anglo-égyptien ." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 8, no. 2 (1938): p. 208.

Little, Donald P. "The Haram Documents a Sources for the Arts and Architecture of the Mamluk Period." In Muqarnas 2 (1984): pp. 61-72.

Look, David W. "The Preservation and Retrofit of Islamic Monuments in Cairo After the Earthquake of 12 October 1992," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 80-90. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Louca, C. and O. Valansot. "Etoffes mamlukes du Musée des Tissus de Lyon." Bulletin du Centre International d’Etudes des Textiles Anciens (Lyons) 72 (1994): pp. 20-33.

MacKenzie, Neil D. Ayyubid Cairo: A Topographical Study. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1992.

Meinecke, M. "Mamluk Architecture: Regional Architectural Traditions: Evolutions and Interrelations." Damaszener Mitteilungen 2 (1985): pp. 163-75.

al-Minabbawy, Medhat. "Restoration Work in Cairo: Past, Present, and Future," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 17-21. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

The Mosques of Egypt from 21 H. (641) to 1365 H. (1946). Giza: The Survey of Egypt, 1949.

Moyer, Eileen. "A Review of Musulmanes, Musulmanes au Caire, a Téhéran, Istanbul, Paris, Dakar (Paris: Pavillon Paul Delouvrier, Parc de la Villette, May 19 - November 14, 2004)." African Arts (Los Angeles) 37, no. 4 (Winter 2004): pp. 82-85, 96.

Oney, Gönül. "The Synthesis of the Ottoman and Local Styles in Mosques Architecture in Arab Countries, Particularly in Egypt." Arab Historical Review for Ottoman Studies/ Al-Majalla al-Tarikhiya al-‘Arabiya li-l-Dirasat al-‘Uthmaniya 7-8 (1993): pp. 209-214.

Ouf, Ahmed S. "Priorities in Selecting Restoration Sites: An Urban-Conscious Approach," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 91-98. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Parker, Ann and Avon Neal. Hajj Paintings: Folk Art of the Great Pilgrimage. Washington, DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

Pataki, Zita Ágota. "Ausstellungen: Treasures of Coptic Art from Egyptian Collections: Budapest, Museum der Schönen Künste, 18.3.-18.5.2005." Kunstchronik (Munich) 12 (Dec. 2005): pp. 617-623.

Pauty, Edmond. Les hammams du Caire. Cairo: Institut Français d’archéologie orientale, 1933.

Pauty, Edmond. Les Palais et les maisons d’époque musulmane au Caire. Cairo: Institut Français d’archéologie orientale, 1933.

Rabbat, Nasser. The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

Rabbat, Nasser. “The Ideological Significance of the Dar al-‘Adl in the Medieval Islamic Orient.” IJMES 27 (1995): pp. 3-28.

Rabbat, Nasser. “The Iwans of the Madrasa of Sultan Hasan.” NARCE 143-144 (1988-89): pp. 5-8.

Rabbat, Nasser. “Mamluk Throne Halls: Qubba or Iwan?” Ars Orientalis 23 (1993): pp. 201-9.

Rabbat, Nasser. “The ‘Militarization’ of Architectural Expression in the Medieval Middle East (11th-14th Century): An Outline.” Al-‘Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists 6, no. 1 (April 1994): 4-6.

Raymond: André. "Cairo’s Area and Population in the Early Fifteenth Century." In Muqarnas 2 (1984): pp. 21-32.

Revault, Jacques and Bernard Maury. Palais et maisons du Caire du XIVe au XVIII siècle. 4 vols. Cairo: Institut Français d’archeologie orientale du Caire, 1975-83.

Robins, Gay. The Art of Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Rocheleau, Caroline Michelle. Amun Temples in Nubia: A Comparative Study of New Kingdom, Napatan, and Meroitic Temples. Ph.D., U. of Toronto, 2005.

Rossi, Corinna. Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Rossi, Corinna. The Pyramids and the Sphinx. Italy: White Star, 2005.

Rossi, Corinna. The Treasures of the Monastery of Saint Catherine. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2006.

Sakr, Tarek Mohamed Refaat. Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Architecture in Cairo. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1993.

Sayed, Hazem I. The Rab’ in Cairo: A Window on Mamluk Architecture and Urbanism. Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT, 1987.

as-Shal, Mahmoud an-Nabawi. Mahmoud Said (1897-1964). Translated by Mohamed Abd el Hamid Ambar. Série Arts. Cairo: Prisme/Ministère de la culture, département de l'information à l'étranger, 1984.

Siena, Jane Slate. a'Conservation of the Islamic Monuments of Cairo," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 180-2. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Speiser, Philipp. "he Egyptian-German Restorationof the Darb al-Qirmiz, Cairo," in The Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt edited by Jere L. Bacharach, pp. 22-45. Cairo: The American University in Cairo, 1995.

Spence, K. E. Orientation in Ancient Egypt Royal Architecture. Ph.D., Cambridge (UK), 1998.

Stannish, Steven M. New Evidence for the ‘Amarna Period from the Memphite Tombs of ‘Aper-El, Horemheb, and Ma‘ya. Ph.D, Miami University, 2001.

Steele, James McLeod. Orientalism and the Other: The Case of Hassan Fathy. Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2002.

Sterling, Sarah L. Social Complexity in Ancient Egypt: Functional Differentiation as Reflected in the Distribution of Apparently Standardized Ceramics. Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004.

Taylor, John H. Egypt and Nubia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Telmissany, May. La figuration de la hara dans le cinéma égyptien. Ph.D., U. de Montréal, 2005.

Tipple, A.G. "Housing in the New Cities of Egypt." Planning Outlook 28, no. 1 (1985): pp. 50-2.

Tipple, A.G., et. al. "The Transformation of Multi-Storey Dwellings by Self-Help: Workers' City, Helwan, Egypt." Planning Outlook 29, no. 1 (1986): pp. 39-46.

Tribe, Tania C. "Icon and Narration in Eighteenth-Century Christian Egypt: The works of Yuhanna al-Armani al-Qudsi and Ibrahim al-Nasikh." Art History (Oxford) 27, no. 1 (Feb. 2004): pp. 62-94.

Van Loo, A. "Retour d’Egypte: Ernest Jaspar (1876-1940): D’Héliopolis à Hyderabad." Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée 73-74 (1996): pp. 343-362.

Volait, Mercedes. Architects et architectures de l'Egypte moderne (1830-1950): Genèse et essor d'une expertise locale. Paris: Editions Maisonneuve et Larose, 2005.

Volait, Mercedes. "Du relevé à la conservation des ‘Monuments de l’art arabe’: l’itinéraire égyptien d’Ambroise Baudry (1871-1886)." Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée 73-74 (1996): pp. 77-97.

Walker, Bethany Joelle. The Ceramic Correlates of Decline in the Mamluk Sultanate: An Analysis of Late Medieval Sgraffito Wares. Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1998.

Walz, Terence. "House Decoration in Lower Nubia," in African Images: Essays in African Iconology edited by Daniel F. McCall and Edna G.Bay, pp. 190-222. Boston University Papers on Africa 6. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1975.

Warner, Nicholas. The Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue. New York: American University in Cairo, 2005.

Weeks, Kent R., ed. The Treasures of the Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Temples of the Theban West Bank in Luxor. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001.

Wegner, Mary-Ann Pouls. The Cult of Osiris at Abydos: An Archaeological Investigation of the Development of an Ancient Egyptian Sacred Center During he Eighteenth Dynasty. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

Wilburg, Andrew T. Materia Magica: The Archaeology of Magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain. Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2005.

Williams, John Alden. "Urbanization and Monument Construction in Mamluk Cairo." In Muqarnas 2 (1984): pp. 33-46.

Zakariya, Mona. Deux palais du Caire medieval: Waqfs et architecture. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1983.

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