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No. 3 (1899) C9231; Egypt No. 95; Egypt No. 441. Constructing Medieval Cairo in the Nineteenth Century 9 and reactions because, comprised of a diverse group of men—French, AustroHungarian, British, and Egyptian—it represents a cross-section of those who were concerned with the preservation of Arab art in the period, and its members represent the range of views that were under discussion at the time. At the same time, the Comite was larger than its membership: it was an official organization of the Egyptian government, and so its activities must be considered within all the contexts that were shaping fiscal and governmental policy within Egypt during the British occupation.

Cambridge History of Egypt, vol. 1, Islamic Egypt, 640–1517 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 360. 35. Amin, al-Awqaf, 98. El-Habashi, “Athar to Monuments,” 27. See also Nelly Hanna, Construction Work in Ottoman Cairo (1517-1798) (Cairo: Institut Français d’Archeologie Orientale du Caire, 1984), esp. lnn2-3, and 18–23. 36. Hanna, Construction Work, 5–6. 37. Unsigned article, “Protection of the Monuments of Cairo,” 4. 12 Constructing Medieval Cairo in the Nineteenth Century preservation during the Ottoman period and explain why these preservation strategies were not recognized by the Comite and its official supporters in the AngloEgyptian government.

151. 11 Classifying and recording India’s architecture was a primary element in the production of knowledge about India’s past. 12 In order to read these buildings properly, it was necessary to ascertain the Original context’ of monuments, a kind of inquiry that went hand-in-hand with the work of oriental philologists, who were constructing (in their view, reconstructing) from texts a systematic knowledge of India’s past. In his opening address to the Aryan section of the Second International Congress of Orientalists (London, 1874), Professor Max M€uller insisted that it was the orientalists who were restoring corrupted versions of religion to their pure forms.

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