The History Of Modern Egypt

Author : Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521272346
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Modern Egypt written by Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Egypt from the Arab conquest to the present day.

Author : Bruce K. Rutherford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190641169
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Egypt written by Bruce K. Rutherford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in turmoil. If the Middle East is to achieve a more stable and prosperous future, Egypt-which possesses the region's largest population, a formidable military, and considerable soft power-must play a central role. Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know® by Bruce Rutherford and Jeannie Sowers introduces readers to this influential country. The book begins with the 2011-2012 uprising that captured the world's attention before turning to an overview of modern Egyptian history. The book then focuses on present-day Egyptian politics, society, demography, culture, and religion. It analyzes Egypt's core problems, including deepening authoritarianism, high unemployment, widespread poverty, rapid population growth, and pollution. The book then concentrates on Egypt's relations with the United States, Israel, Arab states, and other world powers. Modern Egypt concludes by assessing the country's ongoing challenges and suggesting strategies for addressing them. Concise yet sweeping in coverage, the book provides the essential background for understanding this fascinating country and its potential to shape the future of the Middle East.

Author : Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Modern Egypt written by Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.

Author : Robert L. Tignor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691153078
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt written by Robert L. Tignor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land and people -- Egypt during the Old Kingdom -- The Middle and New Kingdoms -- Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE -- Christian Egypt -- Egypt within Islamic empires, 639-969 -- Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517 -- Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798 -- Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail : Egypt in the nineteenth century -- The British period, 1882-1952 -- Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981 : Nasser and Sadat -- Mubarak's Egypt -- Conclusion: Egypt through the millennia

Author : Carl F. Petry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521068857
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Egypt written by Carl F. Petry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt.

Author : Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Egypt written by Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.

Author : On Barak
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520276140
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Time written by On Barak and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over “dehumanizing” European standards of efficiency, sprang from and contributed to non-linear modes of arranging time. Barak shows how these countertempos formed and developed with each new technological innovation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, contributing to a particularly Egyptian sense of time that extends into the present day, exerting influence over contemporary political language in the Arab world. The universal notion of a modern mechanical standard time and the deviations supposedly characterizing non-Western settings “from time immemorial,” On Time provocatively argues, were in fact mutually constitutive and mutually reinforcing.

Author : Jason Thompson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307784002
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Egypt written by Jason Thompson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A History of Egypt, Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation. No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity, richness, and variety. However, it is rarely presented as a comprehensive panorama because scholars tend to divide it into distinct eras—prehistoric, pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, medieval Islamic, Ottoman, and modern—that are not often studied in relation to one another. In this daringly ambitious project, drawing on the most current scholarship as well as his own research, Thompson makes the case that few if any other countries have as many threads of continuity running through their entire historical experience. With its unprecedented scope and lively and readable style, A History of Egypt offers students, travelers, and general readers alike an engaging narrative of the extraordinarily long course of human history by the Nile.

Author : Hilary Kalmbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108530346
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt written by Hilary Kalmbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 130 years, tensions have raged over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modern Egypt. This history focuses on a pivotal yet understudied school, Dar al-Ulum, whose alumni became authoritative arbiters of how to be modern and authentic within a Muslim-majority community, including by founding the Muslim Brotherhood.

Author : Michael Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book View of Ancient and Modern Egypt written by Michael Russell and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: