Ottoman despotism and Islamic constitutionalism in Mehmed Ali's Egypt
This article examines an engagement with the European debate on the ‘despotic’ nature of the Ottoman Empire, by a writer from part of the Ottoman lands themselves. In 1842, Khalīfa ibn Maḥmūd, an Egyptian official of the state of Mehmed Ali, translated the Scottish Enlightenment historian William Ro...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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