1st Edition
The Pasha's Bedouin Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848
By Reuven Aharoni
Copyright 2007
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence of a semi-urban community, which became an integral part of the sedentarised population.... Read more
Foreword Introduction Part 1: Social and Conceptual Aspects 1. Tribal Society and Elite: Approaches and Concepts 2. Territoriality and Identity 3. The Economical World of the Bedouins 4. Mamluks, Bedouins and Peasants: The Contest on the Land Part 2: The Control of the State 5. Tribe and State in Egypt: Co-existence with Contrasts 6. The Functionaries 7. Subjects of Control Part 3: The Pasha's Bedouin 8. In the Army Service 9. In the Pasha's Service Summary Appendices Bibliography
Biography
Reuven Aharoni, has a Ph.D. (2001) in Middle Eastern History from Tel-Aviv University. He currently teaches the history of the Middle East at Haifa University and at the Open University of Israel.
