Title The sword of ambition : bureaucratic rivalry in medieval Egypt / Abū ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi al-Miṛrī ; edited and translated by Luke B. Yarbrough.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Library of Arabic Literature
	Library of Arabic literature.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The reprehensibility of employing dhimmis -- The Copts and their deceits -- Of secretaries and their art -- Ignorant men who have donned the garments of the secretaries.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language	In Arabic with English translation.
Subject	Administrative agencies -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800.
	Administrative agencies.
	Egypt.
Chronological Term	Early works to 1800
Subject	Egypt -- Politics and government -- 640-1882 -- Early works to 1800.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	640-1882
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Early works.
Added Author	Yarbrough, Luke B., editor, translator.
	Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235. Lumaʻ al-qawānīn al-muḍīyah fī dawāwīn al-diyār al-Miṛrīyah.
	Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235. Tajrīd sayf al-himmah li-istikhrāj mā fī dhimmat al-dhimmah. English.
Other Form:	Print version: Nābulusī, ʻUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1235. Sword of ambition. New York : New York University Press, 2016 9781479889457 (DLC) 2016007041 (OCoLC)942609776
ISBN	9781479839087 (electronic book)
	1479839086 (electronic book)
	9781479842575 (e-book)
	1479842575 (e-book)
	9781479889457
	1479889458