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Alexandria the city that changed the world
An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence. A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his ow...
| Main Author: | Issa, Islam (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2024.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The ancient era
- Alexander's dream
- Alexander's dream city
- Ptolemy the Saviour
- The Ptolemies
- Wonder of the world
- All the books in the world
- Shrine of knowledge
- Cleopatras
- Ageless Cleopatra
- Jewish hub
- St Mark the Evangelist
- Horror
- Early Christianity
- Destruction
- Hypatia
- Islamic conquest
- Umayyads and Abbasids
- Fatimids
- The Crusaders and Saladin's Ayyubids
- Mamluks and the plagued century
- Ottomans
- Napoleon
- The father of Egypt
- British invasion
- The First World War and revolution
- Cultural hub
- Cultural renaissance
- The Second World War
- The postman's son
- Epilogue.