Policing Islam The British Occupation of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Struggle over Control of the Police, 1882-1914

Name: Policing Islam The British Occupation of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Struggle over Control of the Police, 1882-1914
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ISBN: 9780313307140

ISBN-10: 0313307148

ISBN-13: 9780313307140

Edition: 1999

Authors: Harold Tollefson

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The role of the police force was central in the politics and social life of Egypt during the British occupation between 1882 and 1914. Egyptians initially resisted British encroachment into the sphere of autonomy that had been reserved to them in police matters. However, preferring indirect rule to overt manifestations of power that would be signified by the use of the army, the British used the issue of reform to tighten their hold on Egypt by means of the police. This study applies modern criminological theory to examine the attendant political repression, torture, corruption, and rising crime that soon followed. Instead of the more professional and community-oriented police force…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 11/30/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The British Occupation and Police Reforms, 1882-1884



Partial Turkification, Decentralization, and Retrogression in the Egyptian Police, 1884-1889



Indianization and the Egyptian Police and Ghaffirs, 1889-1892



The British Takeover of the Ministry of the Interior and the Triumph of Liberal Imperialism, 1892-1896



Brief Heyday and Decline of the Police Reorganization, 1896-1907



Liberalization and Repression under Gorst, 1907-1911



The Police and Ghaffirs as Objects and Agents of the Consolidation of British Rule in Egypt under Kitchener, 1911-1914


Conclusion


Selected Bibliography


Index