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The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages
By (Author) Carl F. Petry
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
305.52096216
Paperback
502
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
680g
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 distribution of their residences and places of work in Cairo. Origina