Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries) (Islamic History and Civilization, 7)

Book info: Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries) (Islamic History and Civilization, 7) (Leather Bound, 366 pages) – Brill, 1994. Language: English.

Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule deals with the impact of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt on its political, religious and social institutions, their transition from the Mamluk to the Ottoman regime and further development up to the 17th century.The relationship between the Ottoman ruling establishment, the local religious groups and the military aristocracy is discussed in the first part of the volume. Waqf documents are a major source for this study which, in the second part, analyzes and compares the endowments of the Ottoman governors and those of the military aristocracy and their respective impact on the urban development and architecture of Cairo in this period. The architecture is documented with 70 photographs and figures.By integrating architecture and urbanism in the historical analysis of the period under study, this book is important for historians and art historians of Egypt. Editorial Reviews Review 'It is a provocative work...rich in detail and doing what every good piece of scholarship should do - raising as many questions as it answers.'
R.D. McChesney, Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient.


About the Author Doris Behrens-Abouseif, M.A. in Islamic Art at the American University in Cairo, Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg, Habilitation in Islamic History at the University of Freiburg. She is Privatdozent at the University of Freiburg and has many publications on social, urban and art history.