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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (300 p.) : illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812278354
  • 9781512807547
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.20962 19
LOC classification:
  • DT107.827
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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