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| Figure 1. | Sir Gardner Wilkinson, Hand-book for Travellers in Egypt (London: John Murray, 1847), 449. Book is courtesy of Oberlin College’s Mudd Library. |
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| Figure 5. | Winifred S. Blackman, The Fellahin of Upper Egypt (London: George G. Harrap and Company, 1927), 29. Book is courtesy of Oberlin College’s Mudd Library. |
| Figures 6 and 7. | Courtesy of Nasr Wahbi al-Qusi, journalist and political activist from Luxor. |
INDEX
‘Ababida,
24
,
33
,
37–38
,
40–41
,
59
,
107
‘Abd al- Rahim al-Ghul,
153
‘Ali Bey al-Kabir,
36–37
‘
Urf
,
25
Abnud,
58
Agricultural Bank of Egypt,
133–6
al-La’iha al-Sa‘idiyya,
101–2
Armant,
79
,
84
,
86
,
119–20
,
122
,
131
,
133
,
135
,
140
,
152
,
153
Asyut,
21
,
30
,
68
,
79–80
,
87
,
92
,
94
,
128
,
145
bandits,
2–3
,
13
,
15
,
71
,
73
,
89–94
,
100
,
120–3
,
140
,
141–5
,
154
British Foreign Office,
15
Cabinet of Ministers,
15
,
128–9
,
130
cholera,
3
,
7
,
122–124
,
136–9
,
141
,
146
commercial agriculture,
4
,
22
,
31
,
118
,
123
,
125
Copts,
5
,
14
,
23–25
,
32–35
,
40–45
,
47–53
,
55–63
,
66
,
76–77
,
79
,
81
,
83
,
88
,
90
,
95
,
98
,
99
,
101–2
,
113
,
138
corvée labor,
78
,
82–85
,
89–91
,
93
,
98
,
102
,
120
,
141
darb al-jallaba
,
32
Department of Public Works,
128–129
,
137
,
141
Department of Railways,
129
.
See also
railways
Dependency Theory,
1
,
8–9
,
11
,
31
,
96–97
Dufferin, Lord,
127
Egyptian Revolution of 2011,
1
,
3
,
147
,
154–6
environmental,
1
,
3
,
12
,
18
,
26
,
29
,
44
,
64
,
68
,
123
,
136
,
146
,
150
Eurocentric,
10
falatiyya
,
89
,
92–95
,
100
,
110–3
,
120
,
141
.
See also
bandits
Farshut,
22–23
,
28
,
30–32
,
37
,
76–77
,
83
,
89
,
98
,
102
,
104
,
116
,
118
,
142
Foucauldian,
10–11
.
See also
Michel Foucault.
gunpowder factories,
85
,
109
,
111
Hammam Ibn Yusuf, Shaykh al-’Arab ,
14
,
17
,
29–37
,
41
,
63
,
80
Hanafi, School of Islamic law,
25
,
88–89
,
104
Hijaz,
5
,
21
,
26
,
31
,
57
,
65
,
70
,
72
,
75–76
,
80
,
99
Ibrahim Pasha,
73–78
iltizam
,
19
,
24
,
27–30
,
37
,
50
.
See also
tax farms
Indian Ocean world economy,
4–6
,
18
,
22
,
31
,
46
,
49
,
72
,
76
internal colonialism,
15
,
71–73
,
81
International Monetary Fund (IMF),
8
,
148
Isma’il, Khedive
109
,
112–6
,
118
,
121
,
125–6
Isna,
13–14
,
22
,
25
,
35
,
41
,
57–58
,
63
,
76–77
,
83
,
86
,
88
,
91
,
93–94
,
100
,
102
,
110
,
128–9
,
135
Istanbul,
6
,
14
,
18–19
,
21–23
,
25
,
28
,
30–32
,
36–37
,
39
,
42
,
57
,
73–75
law,
15
,
19
,
24–27
,
30
,
41
,
54
,
77
,
82
,
84–85
,
87–89
,
93
,
97
,
99
,
101–4
,
107
,
112–9
,
125–9
,
132
,
134
,
143
,
145
,
148
,
153
; 1858 land law,
101
,
115–6
; 1869 land law,
114
,
117
Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lady,
15
,
95
,
112–4
Luxor,
46
,
50–52
,
92
,
98
,
103
,
110
,
112
,
129
,
136
,
138
,
155
Majlis al-Ahkam,
15
,
116
,
189–90
,
192
,
194
,
196–9
, 206, 208, 213
Majlis Shura al-Nuwwab,
15
,
16
,
116
,
125
,
197–8
,
200–201
, 217
Makram ‘Ubayd Pasha,
144
Maliki, School of Islamic Law,
25
,
88–9
Mamluks,
5–6
,
19–29
,
35–42
,
47–48
,
50
,
54
,
56
,
58–61
,
64–67
,
72–73
market economy,
3
,
12
,
15
,
96
,
99
,
133
,
147
,
150
.
See also
market reforms
market reforms,
2
,
153
,
157
.
See also
market economy
Michel Foucault,
10
,
45
,
151
.
See also
Foucauldian
modernity,
3–4
,
12
,
15
,
96–97
,
101
,
105
,
114–115
,
118
,
120–121
Morocco,
5
Mubarak, Muhammad Husni
1
,
2
,
112
,
148
,
153
Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha,
6
,
14
,
42
,
70–94
,
105
,
123
,
136
Murad Bey,
39
,
50
,
56–57
,
60
,
63
,
66–67
Naj’ Hammadi,
118
,
132
,
135
,
140
,
154
Napoléon Bonaparte,
4
,
43
,
54
,
149
National Democratic Party (NDP),
153–4
neoliberalism,
1
,
12
,
147–50
,
156
.
See also
Washington Consensus
Parliament,
15
,
46
,
115–117
,
122
,
125–32
,
135
,
139
,
141
,
144
,
148
,
153
paternalistic,
115
peripheralization,
7
,
11
,
89
,
125
,
136
,
140
plague,
3
,
6
,
17–19
,
26–27
,
36–40
,
63–68
,
79
,
139
plantation,
73
,
75
,
81–85
,
90–92
,
95
,
102–4
,
111–2
,
115–6
,
122
,
125
,
127
,
129
poll-tax,
57
Postcolonial theory,
8
,
10–12
,
44–45
,
122–123
,
140
,
147
,
150
Qus,
4–5
,
22
,
31
,
49
,
52
,
59
,
78
,
86
,
91
,
98
,
102–104
,
111
,
127
,
142
,
153
Qusayr,
22–24
,
31–32
,
34
,
41
,
47–49
,
52
,
57
,
59
,
65–67
,
75–76
,
78
,
80
,
105
,
109
,
129
Revolt of Qina, in 1820–1824,
6
,
70
,
78–80
; in 1864,
6
,
95
,
109–114
Sa‘id, Khedive,
97
,
100–101
,
104–5
,
108–9
,
115
,
125
Salimiyya,
70
,
78
,
95
,
97–98
,
101–3
,
111–3
,
116
,
140
,
142
Samir Amin,
9
shari‘a court,
13–15
,
25
,
33–35
,
40
,
42
,
72
,
83
,
87–88
,
91
,
93
,
100
,
115
Sharif Hasan of Mecca,
58
Société Générale des Sucreries,
131–3
Sonnini, C.S.,
48
,
49
,
50
,
51
,
52
,
53
,
54
,
55
,
58
,
61
,
63
,
64
,
65
,
172
,
174
, 229
steamships,
97–101
subaltern,
3–4
,
7–8
,
12–15
,
18
,
23
,
26
,
28–29
,
32
,
37
,
40
,
72–73
,
94–97
,
109
,
114
,
118
,
120–4
,
140
,
144
,
146–7
,
151–6
