"In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so
devastated. After a long time I ventured out into the streets.
Death, cold and heavy, hung in the air. Walls have no value here,
doors have been eliminated. No one is certain that they will see
another day."The Egypt of the Mamluk dynasty witnessed a period of
artistic ostentation and social and political upheaval, at the
heart of which lay the unsolved question of the ruler's legitimacy.
Now, in 1516, the Mamluk reign is coming to an end with the advance
of the invading. Ottomans. The numerous narrators, among them a
Venetian traveler and several native Muslims, tell the story of the
rise to power of the ruthless, enigmatic, and puritanical governor
of Cairo, Zayni Barakat ibn Musa, whose control of the corrupt city
is effected only through a complicated network of spies and
informers.
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