The Sword of Ambition : Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- The First Chapter, On the Reprehensibility of Employing Dhimmis for the Muslims’ Jobs, in Fifteen Sections -- The Second Chapter, A Description of th...
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- The First Chapter, On the Reprehensibility of Employing Dhimmis for the Muslims’ Jobs, in Fifteen Sections -- The Second Chapter, A Description of the Copts and Their Perfidies, in Fifteen Section -- The Third Chapter, A Description of Secretaries and Their Art, in Three Sections -- The Fourth Chapter, An Account of the Ignorant Men Who Have Unworthily Donned the Garments of the Secretaries, in Three Sections -- Notes -- The Fatimid Caliphs in Egypt -- The Ayyubid Sultans in Egypt -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Typefaces -- Titles Published by the Library of Arabic Literature -- About the Editor–Translator Ausführliche Beschreibung