Napoleon in Egypt /

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Other Authors: Bierman, Irene A., Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Reading : Los Angeles : Ithaca Press : Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, c2003.

Edition: 1st ed.

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Call Number: DC225 .N37 2003

Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ottoman Egypt and the French Expedition: Some Long-Term Trends 2. The Geopolitics of the Egyptian Expedition, 1797-1798 3. Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: Bonaparte's Expedition and the Colonial Ideology of the French Revolution 4. Mad Sufis and Civic Courtesans: The French Republican Construction of Eighteenth-Century Egypt 5. Cairo: The Seen and the Unseen in the Description de l'Egypte 6. Napoleon and the French Impact on Egyptian Society in the Eyes of al-Jabarti 7. Social and Political Changes after the French Occupation 8. The French and Egypt's Medical Profession 9. Napoleon in Egypt as History and Polemic 10. Egypt's Past Regenerated by its Own People.