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Empires in Friction

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Egypt in the Sixteenth Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvNelly Hanna

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In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle East and turning Egypt into a province of the Ottoman Empire. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517, publications on the historical record about the sixteenth century reveals little from distinctly Egyptian perspectives. In Empires in Friction, Nelly Hanna explores this transitional period and provides insight into the intricate dynamics of imperial control and political transition. With an original approach to understanding empire, Hanna challenges traditional narratives that emphasize the centralization of power and the dominance of the capital. Instead, she proposes a nuanced paradigm that focuses on the imperial problem of distance, the autonomy of provinces, and the continuity of local customs and economic activities across different imperial regimes. Hanna dives into the financial, economic, and commercial domains where Ottomanization happened. In each, the new ruling power faced challenges in understanding the existing processes, but ultimately the ability of Egyptian merchants to prosper under Ottoman rule shows how Egypt remained under the Ottomans for so many centuries. Hanna deftly demonstrates the strain and areas of conformity in transferring from one imperial system with specific traditions to another. Fused together through the continuation of provincial operation, the Mamluk and Ottoman rules were not observably differentiable during the sixteenth century as the periphery operated at an arm’s length from the Ottoman capital.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-15
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMiddle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
Antal sidor344
FörlagSyracuse University Press
ISBN9780815612292

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"A major achievement. The sixteenth century is the period with the fewest surviving records of Ottoman Egypt, but the author has nonetheless given us a fluent and convincing narrative and provided us with a conspectus of the first century of Ottoman rule in Egypt." —Journal of Islamic Studies"Hanna upsets decades of conventional wisdom, positing 16th-century Ottoman governance as a centralized, centralizing, or even 'absolutist' endeavor. Indeed, by couching the study within an ambitious world-historical framework—comparing, for example, Mexico City and Cairo as simultaneously local, imperial, and global trade hubs—she productively reimagines not only the contours of West Asian or North African imperial rule but the broader meaning of empire on a trans-regional scale." —Choice"Nelly Hanna is at the top of her game in this book. She offers us a wholesale reworking of a pivotal period in Ottoman history from the distinctive vantage point of Egypt. From conquest to confusion to eventual bureaucratic resolution, this book offers no less than a new theory of imperial transition and empire making." —Alan Mikhail, Yale University"Hanna provides critical insights into the workings of early modern empires, the many challenges they faced including those posed by distance and the existing technology and the limitations on the power of the center over the provinces." —Sevket Pamuk, Bogaziçi University"A rich and thought-provoking study." —Suraiya Faroqhi, author of The Ottoman and Mughal Empires