First study to cover the whole of this period and focus on both social change and cultural/religious life The period is crucial to understanding modern Egyptian

Aiming to place Egypt clearly in the context of some of the major worldwide transformations of the three centuries from 1500 to 1800, Nelly Hanna questions the

This text gives an overview of Egyptian society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers key political developments, including various power st

This volume is a collection of studies by leading historians on central aspects of the Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and of Ottoman Egypt (16th-

The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule assesses the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq, and Yemen between 1516 and 1800. Drawing