Download Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule 1517-1798 by Michael Winter PDF
By Michael Winter
Michael Winter's publication offers a wide ranging view of Ottoman Egypt from the overthrow of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1517 to Bonaparte's invasion of 1798 and the start of Egypt's smooth interval. Drawing on archive fabric, chronicle and commute debts from Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and ecu assets in addition to up to date study, this finished social heritage appears on the dynamics of the Egyptian-Ottoman courting and the ethnic and cultural clashes which characterized the interval. The conflicts among Ottoman pashas and their Egyptian matters and among Bedouin Arabs and the extra sedentary inhabitants are awarded, as is the position of girls during this interval and the significance of the doctrinal conflict of Islam either orthodox and renowned, Christianity and Judaism. Winter's vast survey of a posh and dynamic society attracts out the crucial topic of the emergence, from a interval of ethnic and non secular rigidity, of an Egyptian cognizance primary to Egypt's later improvement.
Read Online or Download Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule 1517-1798 PDF
Similar turkey books
Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War
Each year tens of millions of Australians make their pilgrimages to Gallipoli, France and different killing fields of the good struggle. it's a trip steeped in heritage. a few cross looking for relatives reminiscence, looking the grave of a soldier misplaced a life-time in the past. For others, Anzac pilgrimage has turn into a ceremony of passage, an announcement of what it capability to be Australian.
Across the Hellespont. A Literary Guide to Turkey
From Herodotus to Freya Stark, writers were encouraged by way of Turkey, a different state on the crossroads of heritage, for millennia. the following, Richard Stoneman describes in vigorous element the notable literature they produced. At a time while Turkey’s place at the fringe can be set to alter to a deeper involvement in Europe, the necessity to comprehend the rustic is much more compelling.
Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries
Residing within the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to existence in all of its ethnic, non secular, linguistic, and geographic variety. The participants discover the advance and transformation of identification over the lengthy span of the empire’s life. they give attractive bills of people, teams, and groups through drawing on a wealthy array of basic resources, a few to be had in English translation for the 1st time.
The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
The attention-grabbing tale of Queen Elizabeth’s mystery alliance with the Ottoman sultan and outreach to the Muslim global via the recent York occasions bestselling writer of A historical past of the realm in Twelve Maps (published within the united kingdom as This Orient Isle)"An illuminating account of a missed element of Elizabethan England: its wealthy, complicated, and ambivalent kinfolk with the Muslim international.
- Guild Dynamics in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Fluidity and Leverage (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage)
- The Top Hat, the Grey Wolf, and the Crescent: Turkish Nationalism and the Turkish Republic
- Chicken and Other Poultry
- Ottoman Medicine: Healing and Medical Institutions, 1500-1700
- The Ottoman Age of Exploration
- Young Turk
Extra info for Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule 1517-1798
Example text
29 The army was made up of seven units, two infantry regiments (ojaqs), and five cavalry regiments. The infantry regiments were the Mustahfizan-i Qal‛a-i Misir (the Guardians of the Citadel) known as Janissaries, and the ‛Azeban or ‛Azab; The mounted regiments (the Sipahi) included two elite units, the Müteferriqa and Chavu shes, who were the best paid, and the Cherakise ojaği (a Circassian unit), the Gönüllüyan (volunteers) and the Tüfenkjiyan (musketeers). The Qanun-name reveals the principles of the Ottoman policy toward Egypt in general and the army in particular.
A group of eight Janissary officers, supported by the ‛Azab, attempted to remove him. Initially they were successful, and Ifranj Ahmad was forced to accept the rank of bey, but eventually he was able to return to his original position in the regiment. The military forces in Egypt split into two hostile camps, but Ifranj Ahmad was just an excuse for the strife. The main reason was the resentment of the other regiments, primarily the ‛Azab, at the privileged position and the profits the Janissaries were enjoying.
The Egyptians often felt that the Turks were bad Muslims. 13 30 EGYPTIAN SOCIETY UNDER OTTOMAN RULE, 1517–1798 The absorption of the Arab lands into the empire forced the Egyptians and other Arabic-speaking people to revise their self-image. Under the Mamluks, they defined themselves solely in religious terms. The Mamluks were called Turks, yet their Turkishness was more functional than a birthright; it differentiated them from their subjects. 14 Only the Mamluk elite could use Turkish names, and only they spoke Turkish, although it had not been the mother tongue of the Circassians, who came to power in the Mamluk Sultanate in 1382.