Egypt between the seventh and early sixteenth centuries, including Fustat, Cairo, Fatimids, Ayyubids, Mamluks, communities, urban heritage and material evidence.
17 published studies
An original guide to the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun built in 876–879, its Tulunid city of al-Qata'i, architecture, spiral minaret and later history.
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A source-led exploration of the Cairo Genizah, Fustat's synagogue manuscripts, trade and family documents, conservation and the history…
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Study Sultan Hasan’s mosque and madrasa in Cairo: the four legal schools, great courtyard, monumental entrance, mausoleum and…
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An illustrated history of Cairo's 861 CE Rawda Nilometer, Nile flood measurement, medieval administration, tax expectations and rituals.
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Explore Fatimid naval shipyards at Fustat, Rawda and al-Maqs, and how the state organized wood, workers, river routes…
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Why Bab al-Futuh and Bab al-Nasr were not built in 969: trace Jawhar's first Fatimid Cairo and Badr…
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Fustat is essential to the history of Egypt after the seventh-century conquests, but it is too often reduced…
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