The Sword of Ambition : Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt /
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone untur...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Library of Arabic literature ;
38 |
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