The Sword of Ambition : : Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt / / ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī; ed. by Luke Yarbrough.
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone untur...
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- The First Chapter, On the Reprehensibility of Employing Dhimmis for the Muslims’ Jobs, in Fifteen Sections -- The Second Chapter, A Description of the Copts and Their Perfidies, in Fifteen Section -- The Third Chapter, A Description of Secretaries and Their Art, in Three Sections -- The Fourth Chapter, An Account of the Ignorant Men Who Have Unworthily Donned the Garments of the Secretaries, in Three Sections -- Notes -- The Fatimid Caliphs in Egypt -- The Ayyubid Sultans in Egypt -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Typefaces -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Editor–Translator |
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