Topics/Themes:
• Urbanism and the spread of Islam
• From militarization to settlement
• Muslim minority – Christian majority
• Governing Egypt
Readings:
• Kubiak, W. B. 1987 Al-Fustat: Its Foundations and Early Urban Development. AUC Press (pages 50-94, 121-131)
• Goitein, S. D. (1967). A Mediterranean society : the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. Berkeley, University of California Press. (Sections)
• Sheehan, P. (2010). Babylon of Egypt: The archaeology of old Cairo and the origin of the city. Cairo, AUC Press. (Ch. 4 “Fustat and the Making of Old Cairo”)
The misr of Fustat.pdf