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DIRECTIONS FOR A DRIVE ROUND CAIRO<br />

I.—Europeanised Cairo<br />

PAGE<br />

I. The Ismailiya Quarter : the District of the Foreign Hotels,<br />

Shops, Business Offices, and Chief Residences . . "13<br />

II, Route for Seeing the Ismailiya Quarter . . . . .13<br />

III. The Kasr-el-Dubara Quarter Sights ...... 14<br />

IL— Oriental Cairo<br />

IV. From the Opera House round the Esbekiya Gardens to the<br />

Ataba-el-Khadra ; Scenes of Native Life . . , • iS<br />

V. The Sharia Mohammed Ali ; Native Life of the Bab-el-Khalk ;<br />

the Approach to the Bab-es-Zuweyla by the Oriental Taht-<br />

er-Reba'a and its Mosques ....... 16<br />

VI. The Drive through the City of the Caliphs from the Bab-es-<br />

Zuweyla to the Bab-el-Futuh 16<br />

VII. Mohammedan Funerals . . . . . . . • 17<br />

VIII. Saladin's Gates and Walls 17<br />

IX. The Gamaliya and the Palace of Sultan Beybars . . .18<br />

X. The Mameluke Houses of the Gamaliya Quarter . . .18<br />

XI. The Hill of the Beit-el Kadi and its glorious Architecture . 19<br />

XII. The Turkish Bazar and the Mosque of Hoseyn. . . .19<br />

XIII. The University of El-Azhar and the Okelle of Kait Bey . . 19<br />

XIV. The Beit-Gamal-ed-Din 20<br />

XV. The Coptic Churches of the Bazars ; the best Bazars . . 20<br />

XVI. The Greek Cathedral 20<br />

XVII. The Tombs of the Caliphs . . . . . . .21<br />

XVIII. More Coptic Churches and Mameluke Mansions . . .21<br />

XIX. The Antique Mosques and Mansions of the El-Giyiichi District 21<br />

XX. Old Mosques and Mansions of the Siik-es-Zalat. . . .22<br />

XXI. Clot Bey Avenue ; the Coptic Cathedral ; Little Sicily and the<br />

Fishmarket ..........<br />

22<br />

XXII. The Sitt' Safiya, El Bordeini and Kesun Mosques . . .23<br />

XXIII. The Ancient Arab Streets. From the Sharia Serugiya to the<br />

Tentmakers' Bazar 23<br />

XXIV. The Beit-el-Khalil—an old Arab Mansion . . . .24<br />

II

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