Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Ottoman Egypt, 1525–1609
- 2 Egypt in the seventeenth century
- 3 Egypt in the eighteenth century
- 4 Culture in Ottoman Egypt
- 5 The French occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801
- 6 The era of Muhammad ’Ali Pasha, 1805–1848
- 7 Egypt under the successors of Muhammad ’Ali
- 8 The Egyptian empire, 1805–1885
- 9 The ‘Urabi revolution and the British conquest, 1879–1882
- 10 The British occupation, 1882–1922
- 11 Social and economic change in the “long nineteenth century”
- 12 The liberal age, 1923–1952
- 13 Egypt: society and economy, 1923–1952
- 14 Republican Egypt interpreted: revolution and beyond
- 15 Modern Egyptian culture in the Arab world
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
5 - The French occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Ottoman Egypt, 1525–1609
- 2 Egypt in the seventeenth century
- 3 Egypt in the eighteenth century
- 4 Culture in Ottoman Egypt
- 5 The French occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801
- 6 The era of Muhammad ’Ali Pasha, 1805–1848
- 7 Egypt under the successors of Muhammad ’Ali
- 8 The Egyptian empire, 1805–1885
- 9 The ‘Urabi revolution and the British conquest, 1879–1882
- 10 The British occupation, 1882–1922
- 11 Social and economic change in the “long nineteenth century”
- 12 The liberal age, 1923–1952
- 13 Egypt: society and economy, 1923–1952
- 14 Republican Egypt interpreted: revolution and beyond
- 15 Modern Egyptian culture in the Arab world
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Of the span of Egypt’s history since the arrival of Islam, no comparably brief period has received more scholarly and popular attention than the years 1798–1801, when the country was conquered and occupied by a French military expedition commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte. Publication – for political, propagandistic, and scholarly motives – of materials pertaining to the expedition began early. Before the end of 1798 London publishers were selling collections of French despatches and correspondence intercepted in transit from Egypt to France. At least one account of the military aspects of the expedition was in print before the French evacuated Egypt in 1801. The first major intellectual product of the civilian intellectuals who accompanied the French army – Denon’s Voyage dans la basse et haute Egypte – was in print in 1802, with English editions appearing the following year in London and New York. The first edition of the vast Description de l’Egypte began to appear in 1810.
Discourse in Arabic on the expedition also began early. ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti composed his first narrative of events some seven months after the invasion, and a second account, dedicated to the Ottoman commander Yusuf Pasha, in December 1801; the latter had been translated into Turkish by 1810. Another account in Arabic was written by Niqula al-Turk, who had been sent to Cairo by the Lebanese amir Bashir Shihab to report on the events of occupied Egypt.
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