Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848
by
Reuven Aharoni
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence...