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The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt - The Rise of the Qazdaglis (Hardcover, New)
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The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt - The Rise of the Qazdaglis (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first
published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view
that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the
institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the
framework within which this elite operated was the household, a
conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this
respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial
variation on an empire-wide, household-based political culture. The
study focuses on the Qazdagli household. Originally, a largely
Anatolian contingent within Egypt's Janissary regiment, the
Qazdaglis dominated Egypt by the late eighteenth century. Using
Turkish and Arabic archival sources, Jane Hathaway sheds light on
the manner in which the Qazdaglis exploited the Janissary rank
hierarchy, while forming strategic alliances through marriage,
commercial partnerships and the patronage of palace eunuchs.
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