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The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt
Title
The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt / Abū ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi al-Miṣrī ; edited and translated by Luke B. Yarbrough ; Foreword by Sherman ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm Jackson.
ISBN
9781479889457
1479889458
9781479839087
9781479842575
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xliv, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
In Arabic with English translation.
Other formats
Electronic version: Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235. Sword of ambition. New York : New York University Press, 2016
Format
Books
Language
English; Arabic
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2016
Series
Library of Arabic literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
The reprehensibility of employing dhimmis
The Copts and their deceits
Of secretaries and their art
Ignorant men who have donned the garments of the secretaries.
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