Acknowledgements

We thank the following institutions for their support:

Ministry of Culture, Arab Republic of Egypt, Cairo

Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Cairo

Foreign Cultural Relations Department, Ministry of Culture, Cairo

Archaeological Sites in Egypt, Supreme Council of Antiquities

Centre for Documentation of Coptic and Islamic Monuments, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Cairo

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

Governorate of Cairo

Governorate of Alexandria

Governorate of Kafr al-Shaykh

Governorate of al-Beheira

Tourism Promotion Authority, Cairo

We would also like to thank:

The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
The Spanish Ministry of Culture

The Federal Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Austria

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Activities (National Museum for Oriental Arts, Rome), Italy

The Secretary of State for Tourism, Portugal

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near-Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden

as well as

The Regional Government of Tyrol (Austria), where the MWNF Exhibition Trails pilot project was set up

and Doctor Christian Régnier, Attaché to Parisian Hospitals, International Society for the History of Medicine.

Photographic references

See page 5, and

Ann & Peter Jousiffe (London), page 20 (Aleppo)

Archivos Oronoz Fotógrafos (Madrid), page 23 (Alhambra, Granada)

Plan references

R. Ettinghaussen and O. Grabar (Madrid, I, 1997), page 26 (Mosque of Damascus)

Z. Sönmez (Ankara, 1995), page 27 (Mosque of Divrigi and Istanbul) and page 28 (Mosque of Sivas)

Sergio Viguera (Madrid), page 28 (Minaret styles)

Blair, S. S., and Bloom, J. M. (Madrid, II, 1999), page 29 (Mosque and Madrasa Sultan Hassan).

R. Ettinghaussen and O. Grabar (Madrid, I, 1997), page 30 (Qasr al-Khayr al-Sharqi)

A. Kuran (Istanbul, 1986), page 31 (Khan Sultan Aksaray)

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