Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : André Raymond, the historian / Nelly Hanna and Raouf Abbas
  • Egypt and Italy, 1760-1850 : toward a comparative history / Peter Gran
  • Power and authority in late eighteenth-century Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
  • Les artisans dans la ville : ateliers de tissage et tisserands d̕Asyût à la fin du XVIIe siècle, d̕après les registres du tribunal du qâdî / Nicolas Michel
  • The integration of religious communities in the workplace in Ottoman Syria and during their stay in Egypt / Abdul-Karim Rafeq
  • The Fez merchants in eighteenth-century Cairo / Husam Muhammad Abdul Muʻti
  • Heirs and debtors : blood relatives, Qur̕anic heirs, and business associates in Cairo, 1800-50 / Pascale Ghazaleh
  • How the Shariʻa sees women's work / Amira al-Azhary Sonbol
  • The study of astronomy according to the chronicle of al-Jabarti / Sabri al-ʻAdl
  • The organization of the Coptic community in the Ottoman period / Magdi Guirguis
  • Islam and its adherents as represented in Russian pilgrims' reports of the eighteenth century / Svetlana Kirillina.