1961/02/01 by P. M. Holt · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Islamic Studies and History #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Families in Therapy and Culture
paper · doi:10.1017/s0041977x00091424
openalex publication_date 1961/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The period of nearly three centuries which lies between Selīm I's overthrow of the Mamluk sultanate in 1517, and Bonaparte's landing at Alexandria in 1798 is one of the most obscure in the history of Muslim Egypt. For the latter part of the period, from the early twelfth/eighteenth century, there are ample materials for the reconstruction of the political history in the famous chronicle by Jabartī. The Ottoman invasion, and the years which immediately succeeded it have also received some attention, thanks to the detailed information provided by the chronicler Ibn Iyās. In contrast, there has been virtually no investigation of the last seventy-five years of the sixteenth century and the whole of the seventeenth.