1st Edition

Studies in the History of the Near East

By P.M. Holt Copyright 1973
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1973. This volume brings together a number of studies concerned with the Near East and its history from the sixteenth century. They fall into three groups. The first is concerned with English Arabists of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and particularly with Edward Pococke. The papers in the second group deal with the history of the Nilotic Sudan, and especially... Read more
Introduction I: Early Students of Arab History in England 1. An Oxford Arabist: Edward Pococke (1604-91) 2. The Study of Arabic Historians in Seventeenth-Century England 3. The Treatment of Arab History by Prideaux, Ockley and S~ ~ II: Studies in Sudanese History 4. The Coming of the Funj 5. The Sons of Jabir and their Kin: a Clan of Sudanese Religious Notables 6. Four Funj Land-Charters 7. Holy Families and Islam in the Sudan 8. Modernization and Reaction in the Nineteenth-Century Sudan Ill: Studies in Egyptian History 9. Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798): an Account of Arabic Historical Sources 10. AI-Jabarti's Introduction to the History of Ottoman Egypt 11. The Beylicate in Ottoman Egypt during the Seventeenth Century 12. The Exalted Lineage of Ridywan Bey: Some Observations on a Seventeenth-Century Mamluk Genealogy 13. The Career of Kucuk Muhammad (1676-94)

Biography

P.M. Holt Professor in Arab History in the University of London