Religious Values and Restoration in Historic Cairo

This book offers the first in-depth study of the 1980 restoration of al-Jami? al-Anwar—also known as the Mosque of al-Hakim bi Amr Allah—by the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community. Long portrayed by experts as having breached international conservation norms, the restoration project is reexamined here through primary sources, interviews, and archival research, and viewed through the lens of the communi...