Identifier: cairojerusalemda01marg (find matches)
Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ing power, by the possession of hereditaryacquaintance with the afifairs of the country whichthe strangers sent from Constantinople did not pos-sess, and also by the bureaucrats being identified intheir interests with a permanent part of the popula-tion. What is clear is that the practice of Mameluketimes, the acquisition by wealthy persons of Circas-sian, Turkish and other slaves, whom they trainedin arms and whom they could promote to places ofwealth, did not cease with the Turkish occupation,and that the Mamelukes remained a power in thecountry through the whole of this period. By theend of the seventeenth century the Sheik al-Baladbecomes an officiai of fîrst-class importance. Whena governor was sent from Constantinople, the Sheikand his associâtes would despatch a deputation toAlexandria to inquire into his intentions. If theyfound him likely to be a peaceful nonentity, theywould condescend to give him an officiai welcome,whereas if he seemed likely to assert himself they (236)
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A SIDE STREET IN CAIRO. THE TURKISH PERIOD would bid him remain where he was, while sendingword to Constantinople that the governor appointedwas unfit for the post and that his arrîval would beinjurious to the welfare of the community. Thearmy of occupation appears to hâve been perma-nently quartered in the capital and so to hâve gradu-ally transferred its allegiance to the permanent Emirs.By the early eighteenth century the Mamelukes arethemselves divided into factions, named respectivelythe Kasimites and Fijarites, whose origin is mysteri-ous, but may go back to the time of the conquerorSelim, or be much later. Nothing appears to beheard of the rivalry between thèse factions till theyear 1707, when Hasan Pasha, one of the ephemeralgovernors, set himself to create bad blood betweenthe two with so much success that a battle was foughtlasting eighty days. The Mamelukes had, it is said,the considération to go outside Cairo and carry onthe fight in the daytime, without interfering w

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