1 The study deals with the manifestations of cultural interaction between Turks and Egyptians in Egypt from the Tulunids to the French Expedition, covering the fields of literature, art, thought, manners and customs, and so on, and includes as an appendix a lexicon of Turkish words that have entered Egyptian colloquial Arabic; see Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and Salih Sadawi, al-Thaqafa al-Turkiya fi-Misr: jawanib min al-tafa ‘ul al-hadari bayn al-Misriyin wa-l-Atrak (Traces of Turkish Culture in Egypt: Turkish Words in Egyptian Popular Language, with a Glossary) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003).
2 Volume 1 deals with the mosques, madrasas, and takiyas (Sufi lodges) that were erected in Cairo during the Ottoman period. A total of 141 such monuments are identified in the volume with the help of maps, manuscripts, photographs, and other illustrative materials; see Mohamed Abul Amayem, Athar al-Qahira al-Islamiya fi-l - ‘asr al - ‘Uthmani (Islamic Monuments of Cairo in the Ottoman Period), edited by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003).
3 For this document, dated 19 Dhu al-Qa‘da, 1249 (30 March 1834), see Ahmad ‘Izzat ‘Abd al-Karim, Tarikh al-ta‘lim fi-‘asr Muhammad ‘Ali (The History of Education in the Age of Muhammad ‘Ali) (Cairo: Maktaba al-Nahda al-Misriya, 1938), 35.
4 For this document, dated 5 Muharram 1249 (25 May 1833), see ‘Abd al-Karim, Tarikh al-ta‘lim fi-‘asr, 33.
5 For this document, dated 20 Jumada al-Akhira 1249 (4 November 1833), see ‘Abd al-Karim, Tarikh al-ta‘limfi ‘asr, 33.
6 For this document, dated 19 Dhu al-Qa‘da 1249 (30 March 1834), see ‘Abd al-Karim, Tarikh al-ta‘limfi-‘asr, 88.
7 Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 96-97.
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