A History of Egypt: Volume 6 (Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology)
Cambridge University Press, 12/19/2013
EAN 9781108065696, ISBN10: 1108065694
Paperback, 410 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm
Language: English
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods made Near Eastern archaeology a much more systematic and scientific discipline. Many of his other publications are also reissued in this series. Britain's first professor of Egyptology from 1892, Petrie was conscious of the fact that there was no textbook he could recommend to his students. The work of Weidemann was in German and out of date, so Petrie and his collaborators incorporated the latest theories and discoveries in this English-language resource. Volume 6 (1901), written by Stanley Lane-Poole (1854–1931), covers Arabic Egypt from 639 to 1517.
Preface
1. The Arab conquest
2. A province of the caliphate
3. Tulun and Ikkshid
4. The Shia revolution
5. The Fatimid caliphs
6. The attack from the east
7. Saladin
8. Saladin's successors
9. The first Mamluks
10. The house of Kalaun
11. The Circassian Mamluks
Index.