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The sword of ambition: bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt

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Field name	Details
ISBN	1479889458 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781479889457 (hbk.)
Author	Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm active 1235
Title	The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt / Abū ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi al-Miṣrī ; edited and translated by Luke B. Yarbrough ; foreword by Sherman ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm Jackson
Publisher	New York : New York University Press, 2016
Physical desc.	xliv, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Library of Arabic literature
Note	Compliments of the series editors.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-246) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The reprehensibility of employing dhimmis -- The Copts and their deceits -- Of secretaries and their art -- Ignorant men who have donned the garments of the secretaries.
Language Note	Parallel text in Arabic and English.
Person as subject	Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm -- active 1235 -- Tajrīd sayf al-himmah li-istikhrāj mā fī dhimmat al-dhimmah
Person as subject	Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm -- active 1235 -- Tajrīd sayf al-himmah li-istikhrāj mā fī dhimmat al-dhimmah -- English
Subject	Administrative agencies -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800
Subject	Egypt -- Politics and government -- 640-1882 -- Early works to 1800
Added name(s)	Yarbrough, Luke B. editor

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