Chapter VII: The Dome Builders 193-254

Saphadin el-‘Adil, 193—Great Famine, 194—Invasion of
Crusaders, 195—Frederick II and Kamil, 196—The Mamluk
System, 197—Queen Sheger-ed-durr and the Bahry Mamluks,
198—Crusade of Louis IX, 201—(i) The Turkish Mamluks,
202—Their Wars against Mongols, 203, and Franks,
205—Revival of ‘Abbasid Caliphate, 206—Beybars, 206—The
Mamluk Court, 209—Turbulence of Emirs, 210—The House of
Kalaun, 211—En-Nasir, 212—Toleration of Christians,
216—Popular Fanaticism, 217—Incendiaries, 218—Nasir and
Abu-l-Fida, 220—Artistic Production, 220—Mosques,
223—Emirs’ Mosques, 224—Early Mamluk Style of
Architecture, 227—Sultan Hasan, 228—His Great Mosque,
231—(ii) The Circassian Mamluks, 235—Corruption,
236—Wars, 237—Cultivated Tastes, 238—Architecture,
238—Kait-Bey, 241—His Buildings, 245—Mosque _intra
muros_, 246—Wekala, 249—Mosques of Emirs and of Kady
Ibn-Muzhir, 250—The Modified Medresa, 250—Buildings of
el-Ghury, 253—Ottoman Conquest, 254.

CHAPTER VIII

_The City of the Arabian Nights_ 257-286

Expansion of Cairo, 257—Rise of Bulak, 258—Suburban
Mosques, 259—The Approach from Bulak, 260—The Thousand
and One Nights redacted in Cairo, 261—The Transit Trade
of Egypt, 263—Merchants’ Inns, 265—The Khan el-Khalily,
266—The Khan of Mesrur, 269—The Wekala Kusun and the
Flower Market, 270—Streets and Quarters, 271—The Art of
Silver Inlay, 272—Cairo Metal Work, 277—Venice,
279—Wood-carving, 281—Meshrebiya turning,
284—Characteristics of Saracenic Art, 285—Men of
Letters in the Mamluk Period, 286.