{"id":639879,"date":"2012-07-12T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=011576ca41b60dee6cc628d66e4790cf"},"modified":"2012-07-12T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:46:46","slug":"a-detailed-document-of-inscriptions-in-islamic-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639879","title":{"rendered":"A detailed document of inscriptions in Islamic Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/9\/43\/46974\/Heritage\/Islamic\/A-detailed-document-of-inscriptions-in-Islamic-Cai.aspx\" >Ahram Online<\/a> (Nevine el-Aref)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After 14 years of hard work, Bernard O\u2019Kane, professor of Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo (AUC), has managed to compile a detailed report of Islamic inscriptions in the historic zone of Cairo as part of the project to preserve and document inscriptions and epigraphs on Islamic monuments in the city up until the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release distributed by the AUC press office, what drove O\u2019Kane to undertake the project was that many of the Islamic monuments in Cairo were deteriorating and in danger of disappearing; there was no documentation of the inscriptions. \u201cI felt I needed to do something to help with the preservation of information,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref) After 14 years of hard work, Bernard O\u2019Kane, professor of Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo (AUC), has managed to compile a detailed report of Islamic inscriptions in the historic zone of Cairo as part of the project to preserve and document inscriptions and epigraphs on Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}