Egypt

In Egypt, the landowning class first arose in the early part of the nineteenth century from land grants given to extended family members and friends of the ruler Muhammad 'Ali. The development of capitalism and, with it, the evolution of law and social...

There is a long history in the West of representing Middle Eastern women as uniformly oppressed by Islam, by Islamic law, and by men. Stereotypical views of Middle Eastern women today maintain that they are without legal rights, do not attend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024515Author Mansour KhalidFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 873g

In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater. That contrast...

In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater. That contrast...

The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular...

The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain-it created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion and debate about national identity and an outlet for...

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences-anthropology, human geography, and demography-in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this...

The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key point in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A blitzkrieg-style Israeli victory proved that Israel's victory in the...

Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine. In his book, James Hoch provides a comprehensive account of these words--their likely origins, their...

This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time. As Mine Ener tells their fascinating stories alongside those of reformers,...

Recording Village Life presents a close study of over 140 Coptic texts written between 724-756 CE by a single scribe, Aristophanes son of Johannes, of the village Djeme in western Thebes. These texts, which focus primarily on taxation and property...

On January 25, 2011, the world's eyes were on Egypt's Tahrir Square as millions of people poured into the city center to call for the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak. Since then, few scholars or journalists have been given the opportunity to...

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505). In spite of the enormous popularity that al-Suyuti's works continue to enjoy amongst scholars and students...

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-1890Book InformationISBN 9780198216797Author Iain R. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 145mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531582Author Dr. Wafik MoustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531124Author Abdel-Latif El MenawyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733552707Author Sherif BoraieFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint ZeitounaPublisher ZeitounaWeight(grams) 2622g

For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from...

In the wake of the 1952 Revolution, Egypt's future Nobel laureate in literature devoted himself exclusively to writing for film. The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz is the first full-length study in English to examine...

Sudan is at a crossroads. The country could soon witness one of the first partitions of an African state since the colonial era. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement guarantees a referendum on self determination for Southern Sudan, which is scheduled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569023853Author Sondra HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569023020Author Francis M. DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 828g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024232Author Aleksi YlonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life in the Orient, first published in 1926, describes the trip to Egypt and other locations in the Ottoman Empire taken by French Romanticist Gerard de Nerval. The book focuses on both reinforcing and dispelling the old...

Hellenistic Egypt was the setting for perhaps the first Jewish Golden Age, a time "golden" in Jewish memory as an era of vibrant cultural interaction between the Jews and their gentile hosts. This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the...

Using the life and writings of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, along with a variety of Christian and Muslim chroniclers, this study explores the identity and context of the Christian community of Egypt and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531681Author Dr. Wafik MoustafaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569021835Author Donald CrummeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 394g

Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have mined archives and court documents to create a picture of the commercial activities, networks, and...

The rise of the Islamic fundamentalist movement as a social and political force is the most important development in the modern Arab world. Beginning in the late 1970s, radical Islam directly affected Egypt and Jordan, neighbours and co-signatories of...

This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614910565Author Katherine Strange BurkeFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Oriental Institute PressPublisher Oriental Institute PressWeight(grams) 608g

In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how nationalists, Islamic modernists,...

The Nuer people of South Sudan hold a special if unwanted place in imperial history as the object of Britain's last 'pacification' campaign in Africa. Territorial conquest was completed with the annexation of the independent sultanate of Darfur in 1916,...

This present volume presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed by accident. The British were in Darfur for...

This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in...

Sudan is at a crossroads. The country could soon witness one of the first partitions of an African state since the colonial era. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement guarantees a referendum on self determination for Southern Sudan, which is scheduled...

This volume presents twelve detailed studies dealing with cases drawn from the Middle East and North Africa in the period before independence (c.1850-1950).Book InformationISBN 9781474430623Author Anthony GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint...

In the 660s BC Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of Sais declared independence from the Assyrian Empire, and in a few short years succeeded in bringing about...