In his lengthy educational profession, historian André Raymond has been one of many premiere students of city background within the Arab international, and specifically of Cairo throughout the Ottoman interval. His paintings was once instrumental in altering orientalist perspectives at the decline and stagnation of this area ahead of the fashionable interval, and has encouraged researchers around the educational spectrum. This various selection of reviews through major students in Egypt, the USA, and Europe bargains a big variety of contemporary study in Ottoman-era Egypt and the center East, and serves as a becoming tribute to Raymond’s personal work.
A major topic of this quantity is the city society and economic climate in Egypt and the jap Mediterranean of the 17th to 19th centuries, suggesting new methods during which the background of this era may be understood. subject matters comprise a comparability of Egypt’s stories with Italy’s within the 17th and eighteenth centuries, and an research of ecu attitudes towards the Orient during the go back and forth money owed of Russian pilgrims to the Levant.
Contributors: Husam Muhammad Abd al-Muati, Sabri al-Adl, Magdi Guirguis, Pascale Ghazaleh, Peter Gran, Svetlana Kirillina, Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, Nicolas Michel, Abdul Karim Rafeq, Amira Sonbol.