A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen - Jane Hathaway - Google Books

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This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Egypt was the largest province in the Ottoman Empire. In…