All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.(Review)

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: ENER, MINE | Copyright information

All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. By KHALED FAHMY. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, 1997. Pp. xvii + 334.

All the Pasha's Men is one of the few scholarly texts that succeed in gracefully weaving together a close reading with an analysis of diplomatic, political, and social history. Using as his vantage point Egypt's conscripted peasant army, Fahmy's study works on a number of levels: he engages previous scholarship that has posite...

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