الخميس، 14 يوليو 2016

Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo


Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame

Saturday, 16th of July 2016 at 04:00 p.m.

Places are limited, so registration is required.

For reservation: call or Whatsapp:+12132849569 a-1-eat-I-9-joy

Or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com

In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid scents, sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between ancient Egypt and modern Egypt. This is the story of the rise and fall of the Islamic Empire.

In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.

"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta

"behind gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of death.

The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport to the past.




List of what we might or might not see during our tour:




Al Sioufiyya

Al Khiyamiyya

The Mosque of Salih Tala'i

Ahmed Maher

El-Darb El-Gadid

Bab Zeweila

Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh

Wekalat Nafisa Albayda

Haret Al-Zahabi

Haret Al-Roum

Haret Al-Aqqadeya

Mosque of Alfakahany

Al-Kahkiyeen

Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)

Al-Azhar Mosque

The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab

Al-Hussein Mosque

Khan Jarkas el-Khalili

Haret Al Sanadyqyah (Boxmakers)

Alhamzawi Al-Saghir

Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex

Jawhar Al-Qaid (Commander of the Army)

Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk of Naguib Mahfouz)

Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar

Al Maqases

Sekket Al-Badistan

Al Westani

Al Bab Al Thaleth

Haret Al Saleheya

Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub

Al-Zahir Beibars

The Qalawun complex

Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)

Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum

Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali

Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex

Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)

Darb Kormoz

Al Khoronfesh

Al Qasabi

Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)

The Mosque of al-Aqmar

Haret Al Sananeeri

Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar

Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar

Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar

Haret Bergewan

Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani

Al Dabeeba

Darb Al Waraka

Bayn Al-Sayareg

Haret Al-Morakeshi

Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque

Sour Misr Al Qadima

Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)

Albanhawy

Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)

Gamaliyya

Wekalat Qaitbey

Haret Alotoof

El-Jashankir Mosque

Kasr Alshok

Al Mashhad Al Husseini

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