HIST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rifaat Al-Assad, Ethnography, Socalled
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He lived in the world of the late 18th century ottoman empire. That"s the political realm he lives in (not the local egyptian rulers). This shows the ottoman context is important to jabarti. The sultan ruling from istanbul has power over all these realms. Provinces had governors who collected taxes that went directly to istanbul. It was a loose system of imperial control: freedom of worship (jews, christians, and muslims living alongside each other. ) In jabarti"s era there was very little conscription. The ottoman world then was at a time of innovation and change. Orientalist scholarship says differently, saying that philosophy and innovation went into decline after the 11th - Jabarti is a part of an ottoman intellectual world, he feels he is a subject of the sultan. Egypt itself however shows that there are amirs of egypt (ruling mamlouk family in egypt. )
