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Society and economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900 : essays in honor of André Raymond / edited by Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas.

Title
Society and economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900 : essays in honor of André Raymond / edited by Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas.
Publication
Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Hanna, Nelly
  • Ḥāmid, Raʼūf ʻAbbās
  • Ḥāmid, Raʼūf ʻAbbās
Description
vii, 245 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
A collection of studies by leading scholars in Egypt, the United States, and Europe, this book offers a selection of research in Ottoman-era Egypt and the Middle East, and serves as a tribute to author's own work. It includes an investigation of Europeanattitudes toward the Orient through the travel accounts of Russian pilgrims to the Levant.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • English and French essays.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : André Raymond, the historian / Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas -- Egypt and Italy, 1760-1850 : toward a comparative history / Peter Gran -- Power and authority in late eighteenth-century Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- Les artisans dans la ville : ateliers de tissage et tisserands ďAsyût à la fin du XVIIe siècle, ďaprès les registres du tribunal du qâdî / Nicolas Michel -- The integration of religious communities in the workplace in Ottoman Syria and during their stay in Egypt / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- The Fez merchants in eighteenth-century Cairo / Husam Muhammad Abdul Muʻti -- Heirs and debtors : blood relatives, Qur̕anic heirs, and business associates in Cairo, 1800-50 / Pascale Ghazaleh -- How the Shariʻa sees women's work / Amira al-Azhary Sonbol -- The study of astronomy according to the chronicle of al-Jabarti / Sabri al-ʻAdl -- The organization of the Coptic community in the Ottoman period / Magdi Guirguis -- Islam and its adherents as represented in Russian pilgrims' reports of the eighteenth century / Svetlana Kirillina.
ISBN
9774249372
OCLC
  • 63107749
  • SCSB-12618429
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library