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| The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
ISBN: 9781479839087
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Administrative agencies -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800; Egypt -- Politics and government -- 640-1882 -- Early works to 1800;
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al-Nābulusī ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm :
ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī (d. 660/1262), of Palestinian origin, was a leading Egyptian bureaucrat in the court of the Ayyubid sultans. In addition to his pivotal work, The Sword of Ambition , he wrote several works on Egyptian administration and government, including A Presentation of the Living, Eternal God's Work in Regulating the Fayyum , the most extensive tax record that survives from the medieval Middle East.Yarbrough Luke :
Luke Yarbrough is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at UCLA. His research is concerned with the history of the pre-modern Middle East and North Africa, including inter-communal relations, law and prescriptive discourses, Arabic historiography, the oral transmission of knowledge, and comparative history.Jackson Sherman 'Abd al-Hakim :
Sherman Jackson is King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī (Author)
ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī (d. 660/1262), of Palestinian origin, was a leading Egyptian bureaucrat in the court of the Ayyubid sultans. In addition to his pivotal work, The Sword of Ambition , he wrote several works on Egyptian administration and government, including A Presentation of the Living, Eternal God's Work in Regulating the Fayyum , the most extensive tax record that survives from the medieval Middle East.
Luke Yarbrough (Edited and Translated by)
Luke Yarbrough is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at UCLA. His research is concerned with the history of the pre-modern Middle East and North Africa, including inter-communal relations, law and prescriptive discourses, Arabic historiography, the oral transmission of knowledge, and comparative history.
Sherman 'Abd al-Hakim Jackson (Foreword by)
Sherman Jackson is King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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