Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/03/2002
While scholarship has traditionally viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, firmly locating him within the Ottoman context as an ambitious, if problematic, Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on archive material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman empire, but to further his own ambitions for recognized hereditary rule over the province. By focusing on the army and the soldier's daily experiences,the author constructs a detailed picture of attempts at modernization and reform, how they were planned and implemented by various reformers, and how the public at large understood and accommodated them. In this way, the work contributes to the larger methodological and theoretical debates concerning nation-building and the construction of state power in the particular context of early 19th-century Egypt.
- ISBN:
- 9789774246968
- 9789774246968
- Category:
- Asian history
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 31-03-2002
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Country of origin:
- Egypt
- Edition:
- 2nd Edition
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions (mm):
- 200x152x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.56kg
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