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Family, Power, and Politics in Egypt : Sayed Bey Mare--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts /

This political anthropology is the first to explicitly utilize the family as a basic conceptual tool in understanding a Middle Eastern political system. Springborg scrutinizes the familial, social, and political context of Marei's career, and discusses how the rural nobility of the late ninetee...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Springborg, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Family and Other Units of Political Action
  • Part II: The Political Career of Sayed Marei
  • Appendix A. Marei Ibrahim Nasr and His Descendants Through His First Wife
  • Appendix B. Marei Ibrahim Nasr and His Descendants Through His Second Wife
  • Appendix C. The Daughters of Marei Ibrahim Nasr and Their Sublineages
  • Appendix D. Estimate of the Size, Capital Value, and Annual Return of the Mareis' Landholdings
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index