The sword of ambition bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt /cAbū 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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New York University Press
[2016]
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