Pashas

Author : Khaled Fahmy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521560071

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All the Pasha's Men by Khaled Fahmy Pdf

While previous scholarship has viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, locating him in the Ottoman context as an ambitious Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman Empire, but to further his own ambitions for hereditary rule over the province. In its analysis of nation-building and the construction of state power, the book makes a significant contribution to the larger theoretical debates. It will therefore be essential reading for students in the field, as well as for Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the development of the modern nation-state.

Author : Reuven Aharoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134268214

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The Pasha's Bedouin by Reuven Aharoni Pdf

Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence of a semi-urban community, which became an integral part of the sedentarised population. Providing a new perspective on tribal life in Egypt under Mehemet Ali Pasha's rule, The Pasha’s Bedouin examines the social and political aspects of the Bedouin during 1805-1848. By highlighting the complex relationships which developed between the government of the Pasha and the Bedouin, Reuven Aharoni sets out to expose the Bedouin as a specialised social sector of the urban economy and as integral to the economic and political life in Egypt at the time. This study aims to question of whether the elements of bureaucratic culture which characterised the central and provincial administration of the Pasha, indicate special attitudes towards this sector of the population. Subjects covered include: The 'Bedouin' policy of Mehemet Ali Territory and identity, tribal economies Tribe and state relations Tribal leadership With a long experience in fieldwork among Bedouin in the Sinai and the Negev, as well as using a range of archival documents and manuscripts both in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, this highly researched book provides an essential read for historians, anthropologists and political scientists in the field of social and political history of the Middle East. Reuven Aharoni, Ph.D (2001) in Middle Eastern History, Tel-Aviv University, teaches history of the Middle East at the Haifa University and at the Open University of Israel.

Author : Khaled Fahmy
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9774246969

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All The Pasha’s Men:Mehmed Ali,Hisarmy And The Making Of Modern Egypt by Khaled Fahmy Pdf

Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and armies, not as a means of gaining independence, but to further his hereditary rule over Egypt.

Author : James Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : British
ISBN : UOM:39076002852882

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Pashas by James Mather Pdf

Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travelers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic, and diverse. Ranging across two and a half centuries and through the great cities of Istanbul, Aleppo, and Alexandria, James Mather tells the forgotten story of the men of the Levant Company who sought their fortunes in the Ottoman Empire. Their trade brought to the region not only merchants but also ambassadors and envoys, pilgrims and chaplains, families and servants, aristocratic tourists and roving antiquarians. Unlike the nabobs who gathered their fortunes in Bengal, they both respected and learned from the culture they encountered, and their lives provide a fascinating insight into the meeting of East and West before the age of European imperialism. Intriguing, intimate, and original, Pashas brings to life an extraordinary tale of faraway visitors beguiled by a mysterious world of Islam.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438400495

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The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588-1662) by Anonim Pdf

Robert Dankoff has culled passages from Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels that deal directly with the life and times of Çelebi's patron, Melek Ahmed Pasha, an outstanding seventeenth-century military and administrative leader. Çelebi's account is sensitive to all the currents of his age and reflects them in his narrative. His wry comments and observations extend from the intimate details of daily life, and the attitudes of the lower classes, to the deeds of the mighty, the ideals of the age, and the fate of the empire. He concentrates on the later phase of Pasha's career, beginning with his appointment as Grand Vizier in 1650. Because Çelebi was Pasha's confidant as well as his protege, there is a level of intimacy, almost a psychological portrait, quite unusual in Ottoman and Islamic literature. The narrative highlights the private side of this public figure -- his weaknesses as well as his heroics; his religious life and domestic affairs -- in particular, his relations with his two successive wives, both sultanas or princesses.

Author : Gustav Bayerle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Titles of honor and nobility
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073032497

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Pashas, Begs, and Effendis by Gustav Bayerle Pdf

Turkey; terms and phrases; Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Author : Ivo Andric
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681372532

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Omer Pasha Latas by Ivo Andric Pdf

A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul. Omer Pasha Latas is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier, commander in chief of the Sultan’s armies, and as the book begins he arrives from Istanbul, dispatched to bring Sarajevo’s landowners to heel, a task that he accomplishes with his usual ferocity and efficiency. And yet the seraskier’s expedition to Bosnia is a time of reckoning for him as well: he was born in the Balkans, a Serb and a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a bright boy who escaped his father’s financial disgrace by running away and converting to Islam. Now, at the height of his power, he heads an army of misfits, adventurers, and outcasts from across Europe and Asia, and yet wherever he goes he remains a stranger. Ivo Andrić, who won the Nobel Prize in 1961, is a spellbinding storyteller and a magnificent stylist, and here, in his final novel, he surrounds his enigmatic central figure with many vivid and fascinating minor characters, lost souls and hopeless dreamers all, in a world that is slowly sliding towards disaster. Omer Pasha Latas combines the leisurely melancholy of Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March with the stark fatalism of an old ballad.

Author : Pasha Kovalev
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784188825

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Pasha - My Story by Pasha Kovalev Pdf

Pasha Kovalev has led an extraordinary life. His talent and determination have led him from the stark landscape of his Siberian hometown to dance in Moscow, New York, LA and finally in London, where he now lives. Best known for Strictly Come Dancing, which he won in 2014 with Caroline Flack (having previously danced his way to the finals two years’ running with partners Chelsee Healey & Kimberley Walsh), Pasha still remains something of an enigma. Unlike some of his dancing co-stars he has eschewed the limelight. He doesn’t frequent the pages of celeb glossies and, despite his relationship with former dance partner Rachel Riley, his fans have known little about him outside the television shows that made him famous. But all that’s about to change as, in this candid autobiography, Pasha spills the beans on everything from romance to body image, the illness which nearly killed him and, most importantly, what really goes on beneath the veneer of sparkles and glamour.

Author : Letitia W. Ufford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786428939

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The Pasha by Letitia W. Ufford Pdf

With striking parallels to recent confrontations in Iraq, this is the story of the first Western international coalition to suppress an aggressive Middle Eastern ruler. The challenger was Mehemet Ali Pasha, called the founder of modern Egypt. Convinced that the Europeans would never be able to unite against him, he sought, with charm, brilliance and bravado, to create a powerful Muslim counterweight to the encroaching West. Drawing on research on three continents, this timely book takes the reader into the heart of a crisis as France, Great Britain, the Ottoman government and the Pasha of Egypt maneuver to defend their interests in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here are the passionate debates among French and British politicians as they struggle to control the Pasha without provoking a European war. Here are the battlefields--from the Euphrates to Beirut--on which Mehemet Ali's modernizing forces created the facts that fed the crisis. Here are the Sultan's ministers at Istanbul, buffeted by the threats of European ambassadors. And here, in confrontation, is the fascinating Mehemet Ali Pasha, in constant conversation with those seeking to deflect him from his dangerous ambition. As France began the fortification of Paris, as Prussia contemplated the French threat of a war on the Rhine and as British warships flooded the Mediterranean, Mehemet Ali sat cross-legged on his sumptuous divan, looking from his palace out over his beautiful fleet at anchor in the bay of Alexandria, and challenged the western world.

Author : Saygin Ersin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628729627

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The Pasha of Cuisine by Saygin Ersin Pdf

For readers of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series and Richard C. Morais's The Hundred-Foot Journey, a sweeping tale of love and the magic of food set during the Ottoman Empire. A Pasha of Cuisine is a rare talent in Ottoman lore. Only two, maybe three are born with such a gift every few centuries. A natural master of gastronomy, he is the sovereign genius who reigns over aromas and flavors and can use them to influence the hearts and minds, even the health, of those who taste his creations. In this fabulous novel, one such chef devises a plot bring down the Ottoman Empire—should he need to—in order to rescue the love of his life from the sultan’s harem. Himself a survivor of the bloodiest massacre ever recorded within the Imperial Palace after the passing of the last sultan, he is spirited away through the palace kitchens, where his potential was recognized. Across the empire, he is apprenticed one by one to the best chefs in all culinary disciplines and trained in related arts, such as the magic of spices, medicine, and the influence of the stars. It is during his journeys that he finds happiness with the beautiful, fiery dancing girl Kamer, and the two make plans to marry. Before they can elope, Kamer is sold into the Imperial Harem, and the young chef must find his way back into the Imperial Kitchens and transform his gift into an unbeatable weapon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : United States
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069759979

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The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces by Anonim Pdf

Author : Quentin Russell,Eugenia Russell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473877221

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Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina by Quentin Russell,Eugenia Russell Pdf

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina and the Balkan Napoleon, into the consciousness of Western rulers and the general public? This book charts the rise of Ali Pasha from brigand leader to a player in world affairs and, ultimately, to a gruesome end.Ali exploited the internal weakness of the Ottoman Empire to carve out his own de facto empire in Albania and Western Greece. Although a ruthless tyrant guilty of cruel atrocities, his lavish court became an attraction to Western travelers, most famously Lord Byron, and his military prowess led Britain, Russia and France to seek his alliance during the Napoleonic Wars. His activities undermined the Sultans authority and ultimately led to the Greek War of Independence.Quentin and Eugenia Russell describe his remarkable life and military career as well as the legacy he bequeathed in his homeland as a nationalist hero and further afield as inspiration for writers and artists of the Romantic movement.

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015019754731

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The Review of Reviews by William Thomas Stead Pdf

Author : August Giacomo Jochmus (freiherr von Cotignola.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600077801

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August von Jochmus' gesammelte Schriften, herausg. von G.M. Thomas by August Giacomo Jochmus (freiherr von Cotignola.) Pdf

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735273504

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Kill the Mall by Pasha Malla Pdf

"Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka." —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for Reproduction Douglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America's most surreal inventions—the local mall. After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time between "making work" and "engaging the public," all while chronicling his adventures in weekly progress reports. Before long, a series of strange after-hour events rattles our hero, and he sets forth on a nightly quest to untangle the mysterious forces at play in the mall's unmapped recesses. Things quickly get hairy, and our narrator's optimism about his mall residency descends into doubt, and then into a full-blown phantasmagoria of horror and (possibly) murder. With the aid of a weird and wonderful cast of mall-dwelling misfits--including a pony named Gary--our narrator is forced to conclude that his new residence may not be the temple of consumer bliss he initially imagined, but something far more sinister. And who, or what, is benefitting from its existence? Much like the shopping centres it praises and parodies, Pasha Malla’s wildly adventurous novel follows its own internal logic, channeling its narrator’s unshakeable innocence to explore the darker edges of human (and other) nature.