A Tale of Two Factions
Subtitle: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780791458846
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History; History - General History; History: World; ASIA; Ottoman Empire; Middle East - Egypt; Modern - 18th Century; Middle East - General; Modern - 17th Century; 1517-1882; Economic conditions; Egypt; Social conditions
Description: "This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Egypt was the largest province in the Ottoman Empire. In answer to the enduring mystery surrounding the factions' origins, Jane Hathaway places their emergence within the generalized crisis that the Ottoman Empire - like much of the rest of the world - suffered during the early modern period, while uncovering a symbiosis between Ottoman Egypt and Yemen that was critical to their formation."--Jacket.