A great deal of conflicting material has been written about the 'Urabi movement, as an examination of the European sources for this topic shows. Even though 'Urabi's memoirs were in a large part copied from Salim al-Naqqash's Misr lil-Misriyin, and the atmosphere of charge and counter-charge in which they were written makes them suspect, they resolve some of the conflicts between the sources. Specifically, they clearly show some of 'Urabi's motives, indicating that he was more than a power-hungry military adventurer. He was concerned about a wide range of problems, including the status of native Egyptians, foreign influence in Egypt, and the need for a more representative government. [...] / Un grand hombre de matériel controversiel a été écrit au sujet de mouvement furabi, tel que le démontre les resultats d'un examen des sources europèenes sur ce sujet. Bien que les mémoirs d'Urabi etaient on grande partie copiés de l'oeuvre de Salim al-Naqqash, Miar lil-Misriyin, et le climat d'accusation et de contre-accusation dans lequel ils furent écrits les rends suspects, ils déterminent certains des conflits entre les sources. Ils mettent particulièrement en evidence certains des motifs d'Urabi, démontrant qu'il était plus qu'un simple aventurier militaire assoiffé de pouvoir. Il se préoccupait de divers problèmes, tel que le statut des autochtones égyptiens, l'influence étrangère en Egypte, et le besoin d'un gouvernement plus representatif. [...]
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.108897 |
Date | January 1976 |
Creators | Ruedig, David B. |
Contributors | Little, Donald P. (Supervisor) |
Publisher | McGill University |
Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
Language | English |
Detected Language | French |
Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Format | application/pdf |
Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Islamic Studies.) |
Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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