During the nineteenth century Cairo witnessed one of its most dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a modern and cosmopolitan city by the end of the century a medieval Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual cityphysically and psychically split between EastWest and modernmedievalthe contributors to the provocative collection demonstrate that in fact this process of inscription was the result of restoration practices museology and tourism initiated by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address nineteenthcentury Cairo both in terms of its history and the perception of its achievements this book will be an essential text for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the Islamic world.