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5 septembre 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifpo.3349
- isbn: 9782901315650
- eisbn: 9782351594544
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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histoire urbaine orientalisme Le Caire Égypte Empire ottoman Égypte ottomane Damas Syrie Alep Acre Urban Studies History SOC026030 JFSGSujets proches
Frontier troubles Examples Exemplars Generation Procreation Pangenesis Amphimixis Annals 15th century Urban studies Architectural engineering Construction Buildings--Design and construction Engineering, Architectural building bâtiment monumentCiter ce document
Kenneth M. Cuno, « The reproduction of elite households in eighteenth-century Egypt: two examples from al-manṣūra », Presses de l’Ifpo, ID : 10.4000/books.ifpo.3349
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INTRODUCTION Some twenty-five years ago, the household was identified as an integral feature of Ottoman ruling-class society. «[N]ot only the sultan but also the leading officials of the empire supported households, made up of their ’inner’ and ’outer’ retinues, needed to fulfill their official fonctions.» As the Ottoman state grew from a small frontier principality into a far-flung empire, the sultans elevated themselves by building up an imperial household that in the fifteenth century cons...