Author: Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521289689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This account of Egyptian society traces the economic reasons for Muhammad Ali's rise to power and the effects of his regime on Egypt's development as a nation state.
Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali
Author: Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521289689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This account of Egyptian society traces the economic reasons for Muhammad Ali's rise to power and the effects of his regime on Egypt's development as a nation state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521289689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This account of Egyptian society traces the economic reasons for Muhammad Ali's rise to power and the effects of his regime on Egypt's development as a nation state.
Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali. 1984
Author: Afaf Lutfi Al-sayyid Marsot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali
Author: Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsut
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In the House of Muhammad Ali
Author: Hassan Hassan
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774245541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This remarkable memoir of a junior member of the former royal family constitutes a unique chronicle of life before 1952 among the members of Egypt's ruling class. It provides fascinating insights into the lives not only of the rulers themselves, from Muhammad Ali to King Fuad and King Farouk, but also of royal wives, cousins, aunts, uncles, and associated personalities. In the House of Muhammad Ali is a personal memoir from the inside; it is thus an important document for future scholars. But the book will delight the general reader every bit as much as the historian. It is a charming and evocative account of a time and a social class that no longer exist, written in the author's inimitable style a style that reads almost like a conversation: "She emanated a gentle quietude which was like a screen between one and the exterior world. A dim sort of luminosity seemed to surround her, as if she lived in a gray, limbo world of her own also conveyed perhaps by the fact that she had very poor and limited eyesight." Prince Hassan's gift for characterization is matched by an extraordinary eye for detail. His descriptions of houses, palaces, and gardens many of them no longer in existence are at the same time precise and evocative. The book thus also makes an important contribution to the history of Cairene urban geography. But most valuable of all, perhaps, are the illustrations. Some seventy-five photographs, most of them never published before, have a poignancy that readily leads the viewer into the world they depict. The people in them are clearly defined, richly varied, and above all interesting. At least of equal value are the pictures of palaces, gardens, and riverfront that document aspects of Cairo that vanished long ago. The experience of reading this memoir is akin to discovering a lost generation.
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774245541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This remarkable memoir of a junior member of the former royal family constitutes a unique chronicle of life before 1952 among the members of Egypt's ruling class. It provides fascinating insights into the lives not only of the rulers themselves, from Muhammad Ali to King Fuad and King Farouk, but also of royal wives, cousins, aunts, uncles, and associated personalities. In the House of Muhammad Ali is a personal memoir from the inside; it is thus an important document for future scholars. But the book will delight the general reader every bit as much as the historian. It is a charming and evocative account of a time and a social class that no longer exist, written in the author's inimitable style a style that reads almost like a conversation: "She emanated a gentle quietude which was like a screen between one and the exterior world. A dim sort of luminosity seemed to surround her, as if she lived in a gray, limbo world of her own also conveyed perhaps by the fact that she had very poor and limited eyesight." Prince Hassan's gift for characterization is matched by an extraordinary eye for detail. His descriptions of houses, palaces, and gardens many of them no longer in existence are at the same time precise and evocative. The book thus also makes an important contribution to the history of Cairene urban geography. But most valuable of all, perhaps, are the illustrations. Some seventy-five photographs, most of them never published before, have a poignancy that readily leads the viewer into the world they depict. The people in them are clearly defined, richly varied, and above all interesting. At least of equal value are the pictures of palaces, gardens, and riverfront that document aspects of Cairo that vanished long ago. The experience of reading this memoir is akin to discovering a lost generation.
The Founder of Modern Egypt
Author: Henry Dodwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521232643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Reprinted in 1967, this 1931 book is an historical and administrative study of the reign of Muhammad 'Ali (1769-1849). The author strives 'to escape from the traditional hero of French and villain of English writers, and to ascertain by a study of original materials what Muhammad 'Ali really did'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521232643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Reprinted in 1967, this 1931 book is an historical and administrative study of the reign of Muhammad 'Ali (1769-1849). The author strives 'to escape from the traditional hero of French and villain of English writers, and to ascertain by a study of original materials what Muhammad 'Ali really did'.
The History of Egypt
Author: Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
"Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
"Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.
The History of Modern Egypt
Author: Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
"Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
"Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.
All the Pasha's Men
Author: Khaled Fahmy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521560078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
While previous scholarship has viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, locating him in the Ottoman context as an ambitious Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman Empire, but to further his own ambitions for hereditary rule over the province. In its analysis of nation-building and the construction of state power, the book makes a significant contribution to the larger theoretical debates. It will therefore be essential reading for students in the field, as well as for Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the development of the modern nation-state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521560078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
While previous scholarship has viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, locating him in the Ottoman context as an ambitious Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman Empire, but to further his own ambitions for hereditary rule over the province. In its analysis of nation-building and the construction of state power, the book makes a significant contribution to the larger theoretical debates. It will therefore be essential reading for students in the field, as well as for Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the development of the modern nation-state.
The Agricultural Policy of Muá ̧¥ammad Ê»AlÄ« in Egypt
Author: Helen Anne B. Rivlin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674428140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674428140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Author: Terence Walz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774163982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet little is known about them. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774163982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet little is known about them. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean.