9. A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Preamble xiii
5. Road map xvii
6. 1. Memphis: The First Cairo 1
7. 2. From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave 19
8. 3. Fustat-Misr: The City of Arab Islam 39
9. 4. Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town 55
10. 5. Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree 77
11. 6. The Bahri Mamluks: The City of the Slave Sultans 93
12. 7. Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks 117
13. 8. A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule 149
14. 9. A Changing City: From Napoleon to Muhammad Ali 171
15. 10. Modernizing the New, Medievalizing the Old: The City of the Khedive 199
16. 11. The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser 229
17. 12. Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past 255
18. Appendix 281
19. Glossary 283
20. Endnotes 289
21. Figures and Credits 313
22. Index 317