By Caroline Williams
ISBN-10: 9774162056
ISBN-13: 9789774162053
This new, absolutely revised variation of a well-liked and convenient consultant keeps to stroll the customer round 200 of the city’s finest Islamic monuments. It additionally retains velocity with fresh recovery projects and newly opened monuments equivalent to the Amir Taz Palace and the Sitt Wasila House.
“This e-book needs to be within the baggage of each customer to Cairo. in addition, as soon as domestic, fanatics and scholars of Cairo’s structure will locate it a handy and exact quickly reference in addition to a adored keepsake of many advantageous and stress-free rambles one of the monuments of Cairo.”
—Jonathan M. Bloom, magazine of the yank study heart in Egypt
“Any customer to Cairo who desires to see the monuments shouldn't be with out it.”
—Bernard O’Kane
“Anyone drawn to realizing extra approximately Cairo’s Islamic structure may still decide up the superb Islamic Monuments in Cairo: the sensible Guide.”
—Lonely Planet: Cairo, 1998
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