The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt / Abū ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi al-Miṣrī ; edited and translated by Luke B. Yarbrough ; Foreword by Sherman ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235, author.

Contributor:

Yarbrough, Luke B., editor, translator.

Series:

Library of Arabic literature

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative agencies--Egypt--Early works to 1800.

Administrative agencies.

Politics and government.

Egypt--Politics and government--640-1882--Early works to 1800.

Egypt.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

xliv, 266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In Arabic with English translation.

Contents:

Introduction

The reprehensibility of employing dhimmis

The Copts and their deceits

Of secretaries and their art

Ignorant men who have donned the garments of the secretaries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235. Lumaʻ al-qawānīn al-muḍīyah fī dawāwīn al-diyār al-Miṣrīyah.

Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235. Tajrīd sayf al-himmah li-istikhrāj mā fī dhimmat al-dhimmah. English

Other Format:

Electronic version: Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235. Sword of ambition.

ISBN:

9781479889457

1479889458

OCLC:

942609776