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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      28 November 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511470738
      9780521571104
      9780521892940
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470738
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 218 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.463kg, 220 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
      Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, Middle East History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, Middle East History
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    In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial variation on an empire-wide, household-based political culture. The study focuses on the Qazdagli household. Originally, a largely Anatolian contingent within Egypt's Janissary regiment, the Qazdaglis dominated Egypt by the late eighteenth century. Using Turkish and Arabic archival sources, Jane Hathaway sheds light on the manner in which the Qazdaglis exploited the Janissary rank hierarchy, while forming strategic alliances through marriage, commercial partnerships and the patronage of palace eunuchs.

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    ‘… this work is an important achievement and sets the study of Egypt in this period on a new path.’

    Reuven Amitai-Preiss Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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