Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt
Title | Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Kalmbach |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2020-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108530346 |
For 130 years, tensions have raged over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modern Egypt. This history focuses on a pivotal yet understudied school, Dar al-Ulum, whose alumni became authoritative arbiters of how to be modern and authentic within a Muslim-majority community, including by founding the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt
Title | The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Kitroeff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-03-22 |
Genre | Egypt |
ISBN | 9789774168581 |
"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt is the first account of the modern Greek presence in Egypt from its beginnings during the era of Muhammad Ali to its final days under Nasser. It casts a critical eye on the reality and myths surrounding the complex and ubiquitous Greek community in Egypt by examining the Greeks' legal status, their relations with the country's rulers, their interactions with both elite and ordinary Egyptians, their economic activities, their contacts with foreign communities, their ties to their Greek homeland, and their community life, which included a rich and celebrated literary culture.
Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt
Title | Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Malcolm Reid |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2002-07-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780521894333 |
Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. In this history, Professor Reid explains the university's part in the national quest for independence from Britain, in the perennial tension between secular and religious world-views, and in the push for a more egalitarian society.
A Short History of Modern Egypt
Title | A Short History of Modern Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1985-07-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521272346 |
A history of Egypt from the Arab conquest to the present day.
All the Pasha's Men
Title | All the Pasha's Men PDF eBook |
Author | Khaled Fahmy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1997-11-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521560078 |
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.
Feminists, Islam, and Nation
Title | Feminists, Islam, and Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Margot Badran |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 1996-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400821436 |
The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.
Egypt
Title | Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Tignor |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2011-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691153078 |
The land and people -- Egypt during the Old Kingdom -- The Middle and New Kingdoms -- Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE -- Christian Egypt -- Egypt within Islamic empires, 639-969 -- Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517 -- Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798 -- Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail : Egypt in the nineteenth century -- The British period, 1882-1952 -- Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981 : Nasser and Sadat -- Mubarak's Egypt -- Conclusion: Egypt through the millennia