- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Epigraph
-
1 Introduction -
I: Geography -
2 Imagining the Nile -
3 The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta -
4 The Western Delta in the Islamic Era -
5 The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era -
6 The Bahr Yusuf -
II: Navigation -
7 The Nile Flood Cycle -
8 Propulsion -
9 Local Hazards -
10 Nile Journey Times -
11 Onward Connections -
III: Ports and the Navigational Landscape -
12 The Ports of Fustat and Cairo -
13 Ports of the Western Delta -
14 Ports of the Eastern Delta -
15 Ports of the Red Sea -
16 Conclusion -
Appendix 1: Historical Cartography -
Appendix 2: Geographic Reconstructions -
Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Delta place names mentioned by Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi - References
- Index
The Ports of Fustat and Cairo
The Ports of Fustat and Cairo
- Chapter:
- (p.187) 12 The Ports of Fustat and Cairo
- Source:
- The Medieval Nile
- Author(s):
John P. Cooper
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
This chapter charts the changing navigational landscape of the Islamic-era capitals of Egypt, from Fustat to Cairo. It recognises the navigationally strategic nature of the choice of Fustat as the first Arab-era capital of Egypt. The city’s location just above the Delta apex made it a ready control point for Nile traffic moving between Upper and Lower Egypt; the deployment of a pontoon bridge across the river enhanced that control, while the Nile-Red Sea canal also arrived at Fustat/Cairo. The chapter also examines how on-going change in the course of the Nile in the Cairo area precipitated change in the location of the main river ports serving the city.
Keywords: Egypt, Nile, river, navigation, Cairo, harbor, Fustat, Bulaq, al-Maqs
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Epigraph
-
1 Introduction -
I: Geography -
2 Imagining the Nile -
3 The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta -
4 The Western Delta in the Islamic Era -
5 The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era -
6 The Bahr Yusuf -
II: Navigation -
7 The Nile Flood Cycle -
8 Propulsion -
9 Local Hazards -
10 Nile Journey Times -
11 Onward Connections -
III: Ports and the Navigational Landscape -
12 The Ports of Fustat and Cairo -
13 Ports of the Western Delta -
14 Ports of the Eastern Delta -
15 Ports of the Red Sea -
16 Conclusion -
Appendix 1: Historical Cartography -
Appendix 2: Geographic Reconstructions -
Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Delta place names mentioned by Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi - References
- Index