Family, Power, and Politics in Egypt: Sayed Bey Mare--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts

by Robert Springborg

Focusing on the family and career of the prominent Egyptian politician Sayed Bey Marei, Robert Springborg provides in this volume a political ethnography on the changing roles of the family and other social units in Egypt's political economy. He traces the rise to power of the rural nobility from the late nineteenth century, demonstrating how members of this class used family, regional, patron-client, and small-group loyalties to maintain and enhance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278356
• ISBN13: 9780812278354
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"