Book cover for Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century by Nelly Hanna

Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century by Nelly Hanna was reviewed in the latest issue of Choice.

“A compellingly revised history of Ottoman Egypt’s transformation from a turbulent, newly conquered, formerly Mamluk territory in 1517 to a bureaucratically regulated, financially productive Ottoman province in the last decades of the 16th century.”