Mahmud Sami Al-barudi : reconfiguring society and the self /
To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets-the perils and promises-of change in the rapidly modernizing Egypt of the nineteenth century. Al-Barudi, sole scion of a Turko-Circassian elite family that clung precariously to a legacy of position and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2015.
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : why al-Barudi?
- Beginnings and frames
- Return to Cairo
- Crete
- Domestic, social, and literary horizons
- Echoes of war, portents of invasion
- Ashes, ashes, we all fall down
- Exile, loss, and the recovery of self
- No place like home.
