Egypt A Short History

by Jankowski, James

• ISBN13: 9781851682409
• ISBN10: 1851682406
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-28
• Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Summary

Focusing mainly on the last two centuries, but covering everything fromutankhamon to the tourist industry, this book draws on both original sourceaterial and the latest research. It answers questions on the real purpose ofhe pyramids and on how a group of slaves came to rule medieval Egypt.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Pharaonic Egypt	1	(19)
Prehistoric Egypt and the transition to civilization	2	(2)
Overview of the Pharaonic epoch	4	(5)
The Pharaonic state	9	(2)
Ancient Egyptian religion	11	(4)
Pharaonic economy and society	15	(5)
Greco-Roman Egypt	20	(13)
The Ptolemies	20	(2)
Egypt under Roman and Byzantine rule	22	(2)
Economic expansion and exploitation	24	(3)
Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians	27	(3)
From Hellenism to Christianity	30	(3)
Islamic Egypt	33	(20)
Egypt under Rashidun, Ummayad, and Abbasid caliphates	33	(4)
The Fatamid dynasty	37	(3)
Saladin and the Ayyubids	40	(1)
The Mamluks	41	(4)
Egyptian politics and society under the Mamluks	45	(8)
Ottoman Egypt	53	(17)
Egypt as an Ottoman province	53	(3)
Governors, regiments and Mamluks	56	(3)
Turks and peasants, Muslims and non-Muslims	59	(4)
Economic expansion, contraction, and structural change	63	(3)
Gender relationships and realities	66	(4)
Modernizing Egypt/Colonizing Egypt	70	(41)
The French occupation of Egypt, 1798--1801	70	(2)
Muhammad/Mehmed `Ali Pasha, 1805--48	72	(10)
The successors of Muhammad `Ali, 1848--79	82	(7)
Bankruptcy, nationalism, and occupation, 1876--82	89	(2)
The British occupation of Egypt, 1882--1914	91	(12)
Egypt over the long nineteenth century	103	(8)
Liberal Egypt	111	(24)
War, revolution, and independence, 1914--22	111	(2)
The parliamentary monarchy, 1922--52	113	(8)
Economy and society, 1922--52	121	(8)
Cultural life in liberal Egypt	129	(6)
Revolutionary Egypt	135	(28)
Military coup, republic, authoritarian rule	135	(6)
Arab socialism and social change	141	(12)
Egypt, the Arabs, and the world	153	(10)
Whose Egypt?	163	(36)
Anwar al-Sadat and the opening, 1970--81	163	(14)
Egypt under Husni Mubarak, 1981--present day	177	(14)
Contemporary Egypt	191	(8)
Notes	199	(4)
Suggested further reading	203	(6)
Index	209