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By M. W. Daly

The Cambridge background of Egypt deals the 1st finished English-language remedy of Egyptian heritage via 13 centuries, from the Arab conquest to the current day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic and cultural historical past of the worlds oldest nation, summarizing the debates and delivering perception into present controversies. quantity 1 addresses the interval from the Arab invasion in 640 to the Ottoman conquest in 1517. quantity 2 strains Egypts sleek background from the Ottoman conquest to the top of the twentieth-century.

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The Ottoman occupation ended the old institution of the Jewish nagidate, the office of the nagid, or chief of the Jewish community, an office considered a historical continuity of the exilarch (resh galuta) of Babylon. The nagid was elected by leaders of the community and appointed by the sultan. Reasons for the disappearance of the nagidate at the time of the Ottoman conquest are not clear. Yet the autonomy of the Jews, and the Christians, was not reduced. The nagid was a secular leader elected because of his wealth and high standing with the authorities.

The story is most probably untrue or at least inaccurate, but it reflects the sentiments of the Jews, who indeed welcomed Sultan Salim's victory. After the conquest, Jews and Christians were among those the Ottomans deported to Istanbul. Although this was, of course, a harsh measure, it should be regarded as the Ottomans' acknowledgement of the minorities' special skills in finances and administration that were needed in the capital. Khayrbay, the first governor of Egypt, and later his successors, continued the Mamluks' policy of appointing Jews as directors of the mint and employing Jews and Christians to work there.

Arabs were warned not to wear Turkish clothes. The viceroy ordered his qadi to draw up a document to satisfy the rebels. The chronicler Ibn Abi 1-Surur writes that only natural death saved the pasha from murder by his soldiers. The next revolt broke out during the term of Sharif Muhammad Pasha (1596-98). In February 1598, while the viceroy was in the country with several Bedouin chiefs, he was attacked and shot at by soldiers. There were casualties in the pasha's retinue, but he escaped during a sudden sandstorm.

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