The art of the Saracens in Egypt

[Illustration: MOSQUE OF KAIT BEY. _Frontispiece._] THE ART OF THE SARACENS IN EGYPT BY STANLEY LANE-POOLE, B.A., M.R.A.S. _Hon. Member of the Egyptian Commission for the Preservation of the Monuments of Arab Art_ With 108 Woodcuts [Decoration] _Published for the Committee of Council on Education_ BY CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED 11, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1888 PREFACE. * * * * * The subject of the following chapters is what has been commonly known as ‘Arab’ or ‘Mohammadan’ Art. Both these terms are misleading—for the artists in this style were seldom Arabs, and many of them were Christians—and the general term ‘Saracenic’ has therefore been substituted. ‘Saracen,’ which means simply Ea…

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