The Age of the Efendiyya
            
                Oxford Historical Monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780199681778
Description: Explores the origins of Egyptian 'modern men' who became a new middle-class elite in colonial-era Egypt, drafted and carried out the state's modernization policies, made and consumed modern forms of politics and national culture, and assumed key roles in the state both before and after the revolution of 1952.