NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

Includes photos from the Creswell collection which was acquired by the American University in Cairo in 1956.

The citadel of Cairo in the Ayyubid Period and the development of thirteenth-century fortifications: a reconsideration / Tarek Galal Abdel-Hamid -- An ode to remember: the Burda of al-Busiri in Cairene Ottoman houses / Noha Abou-Khatwa -- The mosque of Mustafa Shurbagi Mirza: reasserting Egypt's Mamluk roots / Conchita Añorve-Tschirgi -- The Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Shaʹban before and after Creswell / Dina Ishak Bakhoum -- Archival photography and the formulation of conservation policy: the case of Manzil Qaytbay / Nairy Hampikian and May al-Ibrashy -- The Turba of Azdumur in the northern cemetery of Cairo / Hani Hamza -- The Mamluk Mosque of Amir Husayn: a reconstruction / Chihinda Karim -- Modes of utilizing Qurʹanic inscriptions on Cairene Mamluk religious monuments / Dina Montasser -- The great mosque of Hama redux / Bernard O'Kane -- A study of the unintended in Creswell's photographs: the architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the continuity of building traditions / Seif El Rashidi -- The works of Sultan al-Ghuri in Khan al-Khalili: analysis and reconstruction of the covered market / Ola Seif -- Detecting the past: K.A.C. Creswell, photography, and the landscape of Cairo / Nicholas Warner.

The Creswell photographic archive at the American University in Cairo is an invaluable resource of over 12,000 printed images of Islamic architecture, mainly in Cairo, but also including buildings in other important cities such as C�rdoba and Baghdad. Creswell's own photographs constitute the majority of the collection, but he also assembled work by photographers active in the decades before he began his systematic recording in the 1920s. The AUC archive is unique because it includes the work of other photographers as well as Creswell images unavailable elsewhere, some recording buildings that no longer exist. This volume of collected studies seeks to highlight the value of this collection for scholars, who can examine the visual evidence of architecture now destroyed or altered in order to better understand various aspects of these significant buildings. Contributors discuss such issues as epigraphy in domestic and religious architecture, employing early photographs as guides for modern restoration, and military architecture.