- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Chronology
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
-
1 Cairo -
2 A Love of Learning -
3 A Prominent Family -
4 The State Railways -
5 Education and Legislation -
6 Simaika and the British Administrators -
7 An Ancient Church -
8 The Patriarchs -
9 The Awakening of the Coptic Church -
10 Al-Majlis al-Milli -
11 The Coptic and Ethiopian Dispute over Deir al-Sultan in Jerusalem -
12 Travels in Sudan -
13 A Crumbling Heritage -
14 The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art -
15 A New Museum -
16 A State Institution -
17 Searching for Antiquities, Saving Libraries -
18 Recognition - Appendix
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art
The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art
- Chapter:
- (p.125) 14 The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art
- Source:
- Marcus Simaika
- Author(s):
Samir Simaika
Nevine Henein
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
This chapter discusses Marcus Simaika's work as a member of the Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art (Comité de conservation des monuments de l'art arabe). The Comité was founded in 1881 by Khedive Tewfik, son and successor of Ismaʻil Pasha. Long before joining it in 1905, Simaika had been in constant communication with, and was a very good friend to, Max Herz Pasha, a Hungarian Jew who worked under Julius Franz Pasha, the architect who directed the technical office of the Waqfs (Endowments) Administration and was a driving force in the Comité until his retirement in 1887. The chapter provides an overview of the Comité's activities, including the restoration of ancient Coptic churches.
Keywords: restoration, Marcus Simaika, Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art, Khedive Tewfik, Max Herz, Julius Franz, Coptic churches
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Chronology
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
-
1 Cairo -
2 A Love of Learning -
3 A Prominent Family -
4 The State Railways -
5 Education and Legislation -
6 Simaika and the British Administrators -
7 An Ancient Church -
8 The Patriarchs -
9 The Awakening of the Coptic Church -
10 Al-Majlis al-Milli -
11 The Coptic and Ethiopian Dispute over Deir al-Sultan in Jerusalem -
12 Travels in Sudan -
13 A Crumbling Heritage -
14 The Committee for the Preservation of Arab Art -
15 A New Museum -
16 A State Institution -
17 Searching for Antiquities, Saving Libraries -
18 Recognition - Appendix
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plates