City of the Dead: A History of Cairo's Cemetery Communities

by Jeffrey A. Nedoroscik

Home to some of the most impressive monuments of the Islamic world, Cairo's City of the Dead is also home to hundreds of thousands of Egypt's urban poor. This book presents a comprehensive look at this unique informal community, and includes biographies of some of the residents of the cemeteries.

This book presents a comprehensive look at one of the most unusual informal communities in the world. The City of the Dead is a group of vast Islamic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897895339
• ISBN13: 9780897895330
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"