Abstract

Enabling Rooted History: A Synopsis of Medieval Cairo
Track: Archaeology
Authors: Yasser Ayad

During the period of middle ages, the Islamic Empire reached its peak and art and architecture flourished to a great extent. Egypt in general and Cairo in specific was sometimes marginalized in history, but it was also glorified in other periods. This was mainly dependent on the interest of the ruling power at the time. The current work is an attempt to link literary work with spaces in the historical Islamic district in Cairo. It presents dynasty successions and their main characteristics in the location, design, art and architecture of the city. It also extends to cover a review of the available online resources of historic Cairo and the efforts towards the development of an interactive atlas of the city's spaces and places.