The Financial and Administrative Organization and Development of Ottoman Egypt

1517-1798

Stanford Jay Shaw

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691625454, 9780691030357
• eBook ISBN: 9781400877461
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

Since the opening of the Ottoman Archives, research on the history of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1800 has resulted primarily in the publication of individual financial and administrative records, sometimes with analysis. Dr. Shaw's study is the first effort to use all the available records concerning an individual province, synthesizing them into an exhaustive study of Egypt's administration under Ottoman rule, from its conquest in 1517 until the French invasion of Egypt in 1798. A unique work of scholarship, the book shows in detail the changes made over the centuries, and is based both on the local archives and on the Imperial Ottoman archives located in Istanbul.

Originally published in 1962.

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Table of contents

• Note on Transliteration
• Part I The Wealth of Egypt and the Revenues of the Imperial Treasury of Egypt.
• Part II The Expenditures of the Imperial Treasury of Egypt
• Part III The Surplus of Revenues over Expenditures of the Imperial Treasury of Egypt: The Revenues of the Porte from Ottoman Egypt
• Part IV The Financial Position of the Vâlî of Egypt
• Part V The Imperial Treasury of Egypt
• Index