NE STUD 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Arabian Peninsula, Wahhabism, Code Of Law
15 Jan 2017
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Edward saeed"s writing of orientalism; discourse on politics, education, economy; shift in society that begins in this period and moves forward the arrival of napoleon"s invasion into egypt (later part of 1797/98) modernity. British arrival on coast of egypt trying to defeat the french; egypt becomes sphere of influence for british. British polity: working with ottomans, but also wanted to challenge them. Egyptian state had to construct a modern trajectory in distinction to ottoman politics. Muhammad ali took over the rule in egypt and began to craft a modern state in distinction and in difference to the ottomans. British assisted muhammad ali"s crafting in the modern state. The modern state is created in oppositional relationship to what was deemed to be the traditional ottoman state and within the traditional ottoman state, a particular opposition to sufism begins to take shape in the egyptian modern state.
