TY - JOUR
AU - Khoury, Philip S.
AB - Near East 713 landholding patterns nor the tribal system, nor even century when a major wave of Syrians migrated to the ebb and flow of "desert-sown" relations that Egypt. The overwhelming majority were Greek were particularly important in the latter part of this Catholics who, with the weakening of Ottoman period, are given systematic treatment. Abu-Husayn central authority and the growth of European trade, makes some good points, debunking, for example, had emerged as the middlemen between local pro- the artificial Qays-Yemeni division of Syrian social ducers and French merchants in Syria. Taking ad- and political structures made much of by the previ- vantage of the new commercial possibilities, they ous generation of Western historians. But the lack moved from Aleppo and Damascus to the coastal of a general analytical thesis, accompanied by incon- towns, where they were employed by semi- sistent, almost offhand, use of social and political independent provincial potentates and managed terminology misleads even the genealogical story. Syria's trade with Egypt. In time, Greek Catholic Consider the Qansuhs, listed by Abu-Hasayn un- merchants migrated to Egypt and, owing to local der `Bedouin Chiefs" although later qualified by developments, replaced the Jews as the premier him as 
TI - Thomas Philipp. The Syrians in Egypt, 1725–1975. (Berliner Islamstudien, number 3.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 1985. Pp. xv, 188. DM 52
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/91.3.713
DA - 1986-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/thomas-philipp-the-syrians-in-egypt-1725-1975-berliner-islamstudien-PPjiyfOnKb
SP - 713
EP - 714
VL - 91
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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