Studies in the history of the Near East / P.M. Holt, Professor in Arab History in the University of London
1973, 1st edition. London : Frank Cass. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388932
ISBN: 0714629847
Physical description; ix, 261 pp., [4] pages : facsimiles, genealogical tables ; 23 cm. Contents; I. Early students of Arab histoy in England: An Oxford Arabist: Edward Pocockee (1604-91) ; The study of Arabic historians in seventeenth-Century England ; The treatment of Arab history by Prideaux, Ockley and Sale -- II. Studies in Sudanese history: The coming of the Funj ; The sons of J bir and their kin: a clan of Sudanese religious notables ; Four Funj land-charters ; Holy families and Islam in the Sudan ; Modernization and reaction in the nineteenth-century Sudan -- III. Studies in Egytian history: Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798): an account of Arabic historical sources ; Al-Jabarti's introduction to the history of Ottoman Egypt ; The Beylicate in Ottoman Egypt during the seventeenth century ; The exalted lineage of Ri w n BeyL some observations on a seventeenth-century Mamluk genealogy ; The career of Küçük Ma ammad (1676-94). Subjects; Arabs Historiography. Egypt - History - 1517-1882. Sudan - History - To 1821. Middle East History and description. North Africa History.
Price: €85.00