Family, Power, and Politics in Egypt : : Sayed Bey Mare--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts / / Robert Springborg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Springborg, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.) :; illus.

This political anthropology is the first to explicitly utilize the family as a basic conceptual tool in understanding a Middle Eastern political system. Springborg scrutinizes the familial, social, and political context of Marei's career, and discusses how the rural nobility of the late nineteenth century has used regional, family, patron-client, and small-group loyalties to maintain its power under Nasser and Sadat.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: The Family and Other Units of Political Action -- Part II: The Political Career of Sayed Marei -- Appendix A. Marei Ibrahim Nasr and His Descendants Through His First Wife -- Appendix Β. Marei Ibrahim Nasr and His Descendants Through His Second Wife -- Appendix C. The Daughters of Marei Ibrahim Nasr and Their Sublineages -- Appendix D. Estimate of the Size, Capital Value, and Annual Return of the Mareis’ Landholdings -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index