Making Cairo Medieval addresses the urban and architectural evolution of Cairo during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Interest in this topic has increased considerably over the past two decades, and this book is a recent example of this interest. For quite some time, a major source for the investigation of this subject remained Janet Abu Lughod’s highly regarded Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), even though the work addressed the overall evolution of Cairo, and its chronological scope therefore extended beyond the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since then, a number of publications addressing the subject have appeared, including André Raymond’s edited volume, The Glory of Cairo (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2001). Although Raymond’s combination of urban history/coffee-table book also covers a much wider chronological scope than the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its coverage of the modern period is relatively detailed. Another recent publication is Urbanism Imported or Exported? edited by Joe Nasr and Mercedes Volait (West Sussex: Wiley-Academy, 2003). Even though the book deals with cities in different parts of the world, two of its thirteen chapters are devoted to Cairo, and emphasize the city’s evolution during the nineteenth...