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100 1 _aṢabrī, Muḥammad,
_d1894-1978
245 1 3 _aLa genèse de l'esprit national égyptien (1863-1882)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-08
508 _aGalo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by Google Books)
520 _a"La genèse de l'esprit national égyptien (1863-1882)" by Muḥammad Ṣabrī is a historical study written in the early 20th century. It investigates how Egyptian national consciousness formed under Khedive Ismaʿil, tracing the links between fiscal crises, administrative reforms, the Arabic press, Islamic reformist thought, and intensifying Franco-British involvement that set the stage for the 1881–82 uprising. Drawing on unpublished memoirs and multilingual contemporary sources, it reconstructs the political and intellectual currents that converged into a modern national movement. The opening of the study sets out the author’s aim to clarify a complex period through rare sources: unpublished memoirs (especially those of Muhammad ʿAbduh), early opposition newspapers in Arabic, and French and English press and eyewitness accounts. It then sketches a long backdrop to modern Egypt, arguing for the deep continuity of an “Egyptian type” that became arabisized in language and religion while remaining demographically indigenous, moving rapidly from Greco-Roman suppression through the Arab conquest and successive dynasties to Ottoman and Mamluk rule. The French expedition is presented as a civilizing jolt, while Muhammad ʿAli’s reforms—national army of fellahin, irrigation, industry, schools, and missions to Europe—ignite a “national instinct” and a rising middle stratum. Saʿid Pasha’s fiscal and social measures (tax reform, peasant property, freer commerce, national conscription) further normalize state-society relations but introduce two future pressure points: foreign debt and the Suez Canal. At the start of the first chapter, the narrative turns to Ismaʿil’s dazzling early years and then mounting financial chaos: extravagant court spending, predatory loans, the Moukabala scheme, costly firmans bought at Constantinople, and the catastrophic 1873 loan. Britain’s purchase of canal shares and the Cave mission usher in joint but rival French-British schemes of financial control; Cave’s report acknowledges real material progress yet urges debt consolidation at lower interest under external oversight, with a view to stabilizing revenues and protecting the fellahin. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Libraire Picart, 1924
653 _aEgypt -- History -- Tawfīq, 1879-1892
653 _aEgypt -- History -- Ismail, 1863-1879
700 1 _aʻUrābī, Aḥmad,
_d1841?-1911
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books/about/La_gen%C3%A8se_de_l_esprit_national_%C3%A9gyptie.html?id=oRMUOAAACAAJ
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77424
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