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The sword of ambition bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt /œcAbū ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi al-Miṣrī ; edited and translated by Luke B. Yarbrough ; Foreword by Sherman ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm Jackson

The Sword of Ambitionbelongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturn...

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Main Author: Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm active 1235 (Author)
Other Authors: Yarbrough, Luke B. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York New York University Press [2016]
Series:Library of Arabic literature
Subjects:
Administrative agencies > Egypt > Early works to 1800
Egypt > Politics and government > 640-1882 > Early works to 1800
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