Napoleon in Egypt : Al-Jabartî's chronicle of the first seven months of the French occupation, 1798 /
This book is a narrow view of a turning point in modern history. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between an imperial Western power and an ancien régime of an African society. Shaykh Al-Jabartī's chronicle is a unique combination of historical narration and reflec...
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Princeton :
Markus Wiener,
[1993]
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