The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt /
Nābulusī, .AUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235,
The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt / by 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi ; translated by Luke Yarbrough ; foreword by Sherman 'Abd al-Hakim Jackson. - New York, NY : New York University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- 1. The reprehensibility of employing Dhimmis for the Muslims' jobs, in Fifteen Sections -- 2. A Description of the Copts and Their Perfidies, in Fifteen Sections -- 3. A Description of Secretaries and Their Art, in Three Sections -- 4. An Account of the Ignorant Men Who Have Unworthily Donned the Garments of the Secretaries, in Three Sections -- A Section with Which I End This Book, Explaining My Reason for Composing It.
9781479839766
2018056655
Administrative agencies--Egypt--Early works to 1800.
Electronic Books.
JQ3831 / .S967 2019
The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt / by 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi ; translated by Luke Yarbrough ; foreword by Sherman 'Abd al-Hakim Jackson. - New York, NY : New York University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- 1. The reprehensibility of employing Dhimmis for the Muslims' jobs, in Fifteen Sections -- 2. A Description of the Copts and Their Perfidies, in Fifteen Sections -- 3. A Description of Secretaries and Their Art, in Three Sections -- 4. An Account of the Ignorant Men Who Have Unworthily Donned the Garments of the Secretaries, in Three Sections -- A Section with Which I End This Book, Explaining My Reason for Composing It.
9781479839766
2018056655
Administrative agencies--Egypt--Early works to 1800.
Electronic Books.
JQ3831 / .S967 2019