Richard Yeomans

Richard Yeomans is a British independent scholar and painter, formerly Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick, where he was Coordinator for Art and Design. ¹ He is the author of [[work/art-and-architecture-of-islamic-cairo|The Art and Architecture of Islamic Cairo]], published in 2006. ²

In the preface to his book he recalls first visiting Egypt in 1964 with friends to see the monuments of Luxor and Aswan; pictures of the Citadel and Sultan Hasan's mosque then drew him to explore medieval Cairo, and the Khan al-Khalili quarter was his first encounter with Islamic architecture. ³ He says he spent many years drawing and painting the Pharaonic and Islamic monuments of Egypt before writing the book, which rests substantially on personal observation. ⁴ The jacket note says he is a painter who has exhibited in solo and mixed exhibitions in London, the Midlands and abroad, and that Egypt's Islamic architecture has been the subject of his painting for many years. ¹

Yeomans holds that his Eurocentric education had not told him of Egypt's Islamic heritage, that the West remains ignorant of Egypt's Islamic culture, and that Cairo's monuments need rescuing as Venice's do; these are his views as he states them. ^{3 4}