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_The Faubourgs_ 59-90
The Caliphs’ Governors, 59—Helwan, 61—Treatment of Christians, 61—Monasticism, 62—Conservatism of the Copts, 64—The ‘Abbasid Faubourg el-‘Askar, 65—‘Abbasid Governors, Ibn-Memdud, 66—‘Abdallah ibn Tahir, 67—The Caliph Mamun in Egypt, 68—Persecutions of Muslims and Copts, 69—The Turkish Governors, 70—Their encouragement of Art, 71—Ahmad ibn Tulun, 72—The new Faubourg el- Katai‘, 75—The Aqueduct, 77—Mosque of Ibn-Tulun, 78—Sources of Saracen Architecture, 85—Ibn-Tulun’s Wars, 86—Khumaraweyh’s Palaces, 87—Egypt recovered by the Caliphs, 89—The Castle of the Ram, 90.
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