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The Victorian Invention of Medieval Cairo: A Case Study of Medievalism and the Construction of the East

Orientalism and Medievalism There is probably no area of Middle Eastern studies that has not responded to or in some way been reconfigured by the idea of orientalism and its fundamental critique of both the notion of European civilizing missions and the claims to objective scholarly traditions that are implicated in global structures of power. The orientalist critique has been as fruitful for urban and architectural history as it has been for political, social, and economic history. Recent work by architectural and urban historians of Middle Eastern cities, in particular Zeynep Galik, has now taken up the problem of how the architecture of the Islamic world was classified, displayed, and often (re)invented in World's Fairs as well as in the orientalist architectural tradition that was popular in Europe in the nineteenth century. Timothy Mitchell's Colonizing Egypt brings together investigation of the representation of Middle Eastern cities at World's Fairs with the Middle Eastern city itself as exhibition in a colonial world. These studies take orientalism as a dominant category of analysis, as an alterity that was fundamental to the colonial order.