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

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 ninetee...

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