Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, by Timothy Mitchell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 413 pages, illustrations, endnotes, select bibliography, index. US$21.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-520-23261-5
Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, by Timothy Mitchell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 413 pages, illustrations, endnotes, select bibliography, index. US$21.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-520-23261-5
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专家规则：埃及、技术政治、现代性，作者：蒂莫西·米切尔。
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10.1017/s0026318400050112
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2006
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Alan Mikhail
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本书最重要的贡献之一是讨论了17世纪和18世纪奥斯曼埃及历史的可能替代来源。超越了这一时期的传统资料来源，尤其是贾巴蒂的著作，汉娜依赖于优素福·马格里比的阿拉伯语口语词典、优素福·希尔比尼的哈兹·库胡夫等作品，尤其是穆罕默德·伊本·哈桑·阿布·达基尔的一部无标题作品。汉娜认为她使用这些来源和档案材料从法院记录的奥斯曼埃及作为解毒剂的奥斯曼埃及的历史写的基础上中央档案的伊斯坦布尔。用汉纳的话来说，这些历史呈现出“一幅不完整或扭曲的画面”（第21页），而且经常再现一种“殖民历史”（第21页），“学者们在谈论'奥斯曼'时，实际上指的是安纳托利亚”（第59页）。什么是“奥斯曼”的意思，什么是埃及文化在这一时期是“奥斯曼”的问题，不断潜伏在这本书，但证明极难完全回答。事实上，汉纳的工作在这方面是最重要的，因为它指出了奥斯曼帝国历史上最重要的，研究不足的，也是最棘手的问题之一，即这一时期文化的性质。作为奥斯曼埃及的历史学家，我们可能永远无法完全理解这个复杂社会的文化，但多亏了这本书，我们现在对奥斯曼开罗城市识字中产阶级成员生活的某些方面有了更清晰的了解。虽然不可否认，汉纳的研究具有启发性，而不是结论性的，但奥斯曼埃及的学生肯定会想读，他们肯定会解决这个问题。艾伦·米哈伊尔加州大学伯克利分校
One of the most important contributions of this book is its discussion of possible alternative sources for the histories of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Ottoman Egypt. Moving beyond traditional sources for this period, especially the writings of al-Jabarti, Hanna relies upon works like Yusuf al-Maghribi's dictionary of spoken Arabic, Yusuf alShirbini's Hazz al-Quhuf, and, most especially, an untitled work by one Muhammad ibn Hasan Abu Dhakir. Hanna sees her use of these sources and of archival materials from the court records of Ottoman Egypt as an antidote to those histories of Ottoman Egypt written on the basis of the central Ottoman archives of Istanbul. In Hanna's words, these are histories that present "an incomplete or distorted picture" (p. 21) and that often reproduce a kind of "colonial history" (p. 21) where "scholars talk of 'Ottoman' when they really mean Anatolia" (p. 59). What the "Ottoman" means and what about Egyptian culture during this period is "Ottoman" are questions that constantly lurk behind this book but that prove extremely difficult to answer fully. Indeed, Hanna's work is most significant in this regard as it points to one of the most important, understudied, and vexed problems of the history of Ottoman Egypt—namely, the nature of culture during this period. As historians of Ottoman Egypt, we may never come to a complete understanding of the culture of this complex society, but thanks to this book we now have a clearer idea about certain aspects of the lives of members of urban Ottoman Cairo's literate middling ranks. While admittedly suggestive rather than conclusive, Hanna's study is one students of Ottoman Egypt will certainly want to read and one they will surely have to address. Alan Mikhail University of California, Berkeley