The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis

ISBN-13: 9780521892940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 220 str.

Jane Hathaway; David Morgan

Opis

In a lucidly argued revisionist study of military society in Ottoman Egypt, Jane Hathaway contends that the basic framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties. Using Turkish and Arabic archival sources, the author focuses on the Qazdagli household, a military group that came to dominate Egypt. This pioneering study will have a major impact on the understanding of Egyptian history, and will be essential reading for scholars in the field, and for premodern historians generally.