A Brief History of Egypt

Contents......Page 4
List of Illustrations......Page 5
List of Maps......Page 6
Note on Arabic Transliteration and Spelling......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Ch 1: The Land and Its People......Page 12
Ch 2: Ancient Egypt (c. 10,000 B.C.E.-525 B.C.E.)......Page 22
Ch 3: Persian, Greek, Roman, and Arab Rule (525 B.C.E.-1250 C.E.)......Page 41
Ch 4: Mamluk and Ottoman Rule (1250-1798)......Page 60
Ch 5: Early Westernizing Reform (1798-1879)......Page 72
Ch 6: The British Occupation and Nationalist Resistance (1879-1918)......Page 95
Ch 7: Ambiguous Independence (1918-1936)......Page 119
Ch 8: The Palestine Question and World War II (1936-1952)......Page 137
Ch 9: Military Rule and Arab Nationalism (1952-1961)......Page 154
Ch 10: Arab Socialism (1961-1971)......Page 179
Ch 11: Anwar Sadat (1971-1981)......Page 198
Ch 12: Contemporary Egypt (1981-2007)......Page 223
Conclusion......Page 238
Appendix 1: Glossary of Terms and Organizations......Page 241
Appendix 2: Basic Facts about Egypt......Page 251
Appendix 3: Chronology......Page 255
Appendix 4: Bibliography......Page 266
Appendix 5: Suggested Reading......Page 269
Index......Page 291