Jami' al-Kabir (Tinmel) - <p>The seventh lesson in a 22 lesson course on Monuments of Islamic Architecture developed by Professors Gulru Necipoglu and David Roxburgh at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. This lesson&nbsp;<span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">looks at the city of Fatimid Cairo, the first 50 years of Fatimid rule in North
Africa and </span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">growth </span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">of Cairo from its inception in 969
through </span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">mid-11th </span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">century. It will discuss the urban
form as it </span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">relates
</span><span style="text-indent: 0in; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">to
shifts in ceremonial practices and planned conversion of the Sunni population.&nbsp;</span></p>
Lesson 07: Fatimid Cairo
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2019

The seventh lesson in a 22 lesson course on Monuments of Islamic Architecture developed by Professors Gulru Necipoglu and David Roxburgh at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. This lesson looks at the city of Fatimid Cairo, the first 50 years of Fatimid rule in North Africa and the growth of Cairo from its inception in 969 through the mid-11th century. It will discuss the urban form as it relates to shifts in ceremonial practices and planned conversion of the Sunni population. 

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Necipoglu, Gulru and David Roxburgh. “Fatimid Cairo.” Lesson 7/22 presentation developed for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Education Programme, 2019.
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