TY  - BOOK
AU  - N�abulus�i,�Uthm�an ibn Ibr�ah�im
AU  - Yarbrough,Luke B.
AU  - N�abulus�i,�Uthm�an ibn Ibr�ah�im
AU  - N�abulus�i,�Uthm�an ibn Ibr�ah�im
TI  - The sword of ambition: bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt 
T2  - Library of Arabic Literature
SN  - 9781479839087
AV  - JQ3831 .N3313 2016eb
U1  - 320.962/09022 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Administrative agencies
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Government
KW  - General
KW  - National
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 640-1882
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Early works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The reprehensibility of employing dhimmis -- The Copts and their deceits -- Of secretaries and their art -- Ignorant men who have donned the garments of the secretaries
N2  - 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 unturned, the book's author, an unemployed Egyptian scholar and former bureaucrat named 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (d. 660/1262), poured his deep knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work. Now edited in full and translated for the first time, The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto the fascinating culture of elite rivalry in the late-medieval Islamic Middle East. It contains a wealth of little-known historical anecdotes, unusual religious opinions, obscure and witty poetry, and humorous cultural satire. Above all, it reveals that much of the inter-communal animosity of the era was conditioned by fierce competition for scarce resources that were increasingly mediated by an ideologically committed Sunni Muslim state. This insight reminds us that seemingly timeless and inevitable "religious" conflict must be considered in its broader historical perspective.The Sword of Ambition is both the earliest and most eclectic of several independent works composed in medieval Egypt against the employment of Coptic and Jewish officials, and is vivid testimony to the gradual integration of Islamic scholarship and state administration that was well underway in its day
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