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Ismāʿīl Bey al-Kabīr (the Elder, d. 1205/1791) was one of the most prominent amīr s of the Qazdūghlī faction that dominated the Ottoman province of Egypt during the second half of the eighteenth century. He was among the cadre of young mamlūk s (military slaves) of Georgian descent introduced into Egypt by the Qazdūghlī leader Ibrāhīm Katkhudā ( shaykh al-balad 1161–8/1748–54). Following the death of his master in 1168/1754, his kūshdāsh (fellow slave under the same master), the famous ʿAlī Bey Baluṭ Qapan, in
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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