The civilian elite of Cairo in the later Middle Ages /
This pioneer study presents a quantitative analysis of the civilian elite in Mamluk Cairo. Using information about 4,631 individuals drawn from two fifteenth-century biographical dictionaries, Carl Petry explores the geographic origins of the civilian elite (the 'ulama') and the distributi...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1981]
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Series: | Princeton legacy library
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Online Access: | CONNECT |