The civilian elite of Cairo in the later Middle Ages /
This pioneer study presents a quantitative analysis of the civilian elite in Mamluk Cairo. Using information about 4,631 individuals drawn from two fifteenth-century biographical dictionaries, Carl Petry explores the geographic origins of the civilian elite (the 'ulama') and the distributi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1981]
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Colección: | Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The fifteenth century in the history of Cairo
- Geographic origins of the civilian elite
- Residence patterns of the civilian elite
- Occupational patterns of the civilian elite
- A tripartite elite: Conclusions and hypotheses
- Appendix I. A survey of major institutions
- Appendix II. Positions held by individuals engaged in the twenty-one occupations of the major group, and by Sūfīs and Copts
- Appendix III. Glossary of occupational terms.