Egypt A Short History

Focusing mainly on the last two centuries, but covering everything fromutankhamon to the tourist industry, this book draws on both original sourceaterial and the latest research. It answers questions on the real purpose ofhe pyramids and on how a group of slaves came to rule medieval Egypt.

Preface

vii

Pharaonic Egypt

1

(19)

Prehistoric Egypt and the transition to civilization

2

(2)

Overview of the Pharaonic epoch

4

(5)

The Pharaonic state

9

(2)

Ancient Egyptian religion

11

(4)

Pharaonic economy and society

15

(5)

Greco-Roman Egypt

20

(13)

The Ptolemies

20

(2)

Egypt under Roman and Byzantine rule

22

(2)

Economic expansion and exploitation

24

(3)

Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians

27

(3)

From Hellenism to Christianity

30

(3)

Islamic Egypt

33

(20)

Egypt under Rashidun, Ummayad, and Abbasid caliphates

33

(4)

The Fatamid dynasty

37

(3)

Saladin and the Ayyubids

40

(1)

The Mamluks

41

(4)

Egyptian politics and society under the Mamluks

45

(8)

Ottoman Egypt

53

(17)

Egypt as an Ottoman province

53

(3)

Governors, regiments and Mamluks

56

(3)

Turks and peasants, Muslims and non-Muslims

59

(4)

Economic expansion, contraction, and structural change

63

(3)

Gender relationships and realities

66

(4)

Modernizing Egypt/Colonizing Egypt

70

(41)

The French occupation of Egypt, 1798--1801

70

(2)

Muhammad/Mehmed `Ali Pasha, 1805--48

72

(10)

The successors of Muhammad `Ali, 1848--79

82

(7)

Bankruptcy, nationalism, and occupation, 1876--82

89

(2)

The British occupation of Egypt, 1882--1914

91

(12)

Egypt over the long nineteenth century

103

(8)

Liberal Egypt

111

(24)

War, revolution, and independence, 1914--22

111

(2)

The parliamentary monarchy, 1922--52

113

(8)

Economy and society, 1922--52

121

(8)

Cultural life in liberal Egypt

129

(6)

Revolutionary Egypt

135

(28)

Military coup, republic, authoritarian rule

135

(6)

Arab socialism and social change

141

(12)

Egypt, the Arabs, and the world

153

(10)

Whose Egypt?

163

(36)

Anwar al-Sadat and the opening, 1970--81

163

(14)

Egypt under Husni Mubarak, 1981--present day

177

(14)

Contemporary Egypt

191

(8)

Notes

199

(4)

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