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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. Countries and Regions
Authors : Brian Wichmann, David Wade
Published in: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Egypt was
brought into the Islamic sphere in the first wave of conquests, in 639. With the Tulunid assumption of power (868–905) it became an independent centre. Then, under the Fatimid dynasty (909–1171) it assumed its enduring role as the cultural focus of western Islam. The architecture of the Mamluk period (13th–16th) saw a continuity of earlier Egyptian traditions, but it also incorporated aspects of Iraqi and Syrian styles. Most of the buildings of these periods are of stone; in fact the general feeling conveyed by medieval Cairene architecture is that of a sombre stolidity.