Carl Petry

Biographic Data

ID5531378
NAMECarl Petry
GIVEN NAMESCarl
FAMILY NAMEPetry
SIGNATUREPETRY C
AFFILIATIONS1Northwestern University, Evanston
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX1

  • The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800)

    Guo Guo, Amitai-Preiss Amitai-Preiss et al.BOOKThe Historiography of Islamic…2001

    History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more developed tradition. This book is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, examining different authors, their works and the intellectual climate in which they flourished. Due prominence is given to the great historians of the Mamluk period (c.1260-1517) but also to the less well-known writers of the Ottoman period. The essa…

  • Fractionalized Estates in a Centralized Regime

    Carl F Petry, Carl PetryARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1998Cited by: 1

    The article examines two cases of estate management from the late Mamlūk period in Egypt: shares in rural properties appropriated from former state lands by Sultans al-Ashraf Qāytbāy (872-901/1468-96) and Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī (906-22/1501-16) as indicated in their charitable endowment (waqf) deeds. Its objectives are: first, to plot the location of these property shares and thereby to determine whether any clustering or other geographic patterns are …

  • Geographic Origins of Academicians in Cairo During the Fifteenth Century

    Carl F Petry, Carl PetryARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1980

  • Geographic Origins of Religious Functionaries in Cairo during the Fifteenth Century

    Carl F Petry, Carl PetryARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1980

    GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONARIES IN CAIRO DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY BY CARL PETRY (Northwestern University, Evanston) This final article analyzing the geographic mobility of civilian officials and professional groups during the Circassian Mamluk period 1) focuses on persons who, by virtue of their placement in the following positions, were responsible for the administration of religious service: imdms (prayer leaders), khatibs (pr…

  • Geographic Origins of the Civil Judiciary of Cairo in the Fifteenth Century

    Carl F Petry, Carl Petry et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1978

    GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL JUDICIARY OF CAIRO IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY BY CARL PETRY and STANLEY MENDENHALL (Evanston) The geographic mobility of social and professional groups in the pre-modern Near East has remained relatively unstudied. This has been due primarily to the alleged lack of source materials which provide more than occasional or general references to travel and migration. However, geographic and residential data provided by me…

  • Geographic Origins of Diwan Officials in Cairo During the Fifteenth Century

    Carl F Petry, Carl PetryARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1978