Speakers will explore how the different dynasties and their ways of governing (the Shiite caliphs that were the Fatimids as well as the Sunni sultans that were the Ayyubid and the Mamluks) generated a different urban fabric from one dynasty to another.
— STAKEHOLDERS —
> Sylvie Denoix
Historian of the medieval Muslim world. She is a research director at the CNRS.She wrote a thesis on medieval Cairo and led several collective research programs on the urban history of cities in the Muslim world, on Cairo, over the long term, on collective baths and political power in Islam.Currently, with the Medieval Islam team of the CNRS, she produces an Atlas of medieval Muslim worlds.She directs the Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée.
> Roland-Pierre Gayraud
Director of research in history and medieval archaeology at the CNRS attached to the Laboratory of Medieval and Modern Archaeology in the Mediterranean (LA3M) of the Aix-Marseille University. Director of excavations for the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, including the site of Istabl ‘Antar (Fustat-Cairo) from 1985 to 2005