Introduction
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Abstract
This book began as an idea while I was engaged in doctoral research in Cairo, Egypt, in 1990–1991.1 I had become interested in the lives of eighteenth-century Mamluk women about whom very little had been written. A mention of the waqfs (religious endowments) created by some Mamluk women directed my search for historical traces of these women to the Ministry of Awaqf in Cairo.2
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Middle East Personal Narrative Islamic World Historical Consciousness Historical Writing
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Notes
- 2.Daniel Crecielius, The Making of Modern Egypt (Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1981).Google Scholar
- 4.Paul A. Bove, “Discourse,” in Critical Terms for Literary Study, second edition, Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, eds. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995) p, 56.Google Scholar
- See also Colin Gordon, ed., Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977 ((New York: Pantheon, 1980)Google Scholar
- Michel Foucault, The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).Google Scholar
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