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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