Sultan's Fountain
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A01=Agnieszka Dobrowolska
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An Imperial Story of Cairo
An intriguing building where decorative Dutch tiles
and a unique Cairo architectural style come together
and Amsterdam
ARCHITECTURE History General
Architecture and the Arts
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Author_Jaroslaw Dobrowolski
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the patronage of a Turkish sultan
The Sultan's Fountain
The Sultan’s Fountain
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- ISBN 9789774165238
- Weight: 610g
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2012
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication City/Country: EG
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan, and--astonishingly--it is decorated inside with blue-and-white tiles from Amsterdam depicting happy scenes from the Dutch countryside. Why did the sultan, Mustafa III, cloistered in his Istanbul palace, decide to build a sabil in Cairo? Why did he choose this site for it? How did it come to be adorned with Dutch tiles? What were the connections between Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam in the middle of the eighteenth century? The authors answer these questions and many more in this entertaining and beautifully illustrated history of an extraordinary building, describing also the recent conservation efforts to preserve it for posterity.
Agnieszka Dobrowolska is a conservation architect and the author of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and His Sabil (with Khaled Fahmy, AUC Press, 2004) and The Building Crafts of Cairo (AUC Press, 2005).
Jaroslaw Dobrowolski is an architect and the author of The Living Stones of Cairo (AUC Press, 2001). A husband-and-wife team, they also authored Heliopolis: Rebirth of the City of the Sun (AUC Press, 2006).
