Conquete ottomane de l'Egypte (1517)

Conquete ottomane de l'Egypte (1517) est le premier ouvrage collectif consacre a la victoire de Selim Ier sur les Mamelouks, qui a fait du sultanat ottoman l'unique puissance musulmane en Mediterranee orientale, et ravale l'Egypte au rang de province. Il en renouvelle l'approche en faisant appel a des sources ottomanes, arabes et occidentales tres variees.Les contributions reunies par Benjamin Lellouch et Nicolas Michel s'attachent a mesurer les transformations structurelles qu'a induites l'evenement dans la societe, les pouvoirs, la culture litteraire, artistique et materielle en Egypte. Elles explorent ses antecedents et son impact geopolitique, et restituent les echos, bruyants puis assourdis, qu'il a suscites, au Proche-Orient, en Italie, et plus generalement en Mediterranee. Conquete ottomane de l'Egypte (1517) is the first collective work that deals with Selim Ist's crushing victory over the Mamluks, which made the Ottoman sultanate into the sole remaining Muslim power in the eastern Mediterranean, and reduced Egypt to the rank of a province. The book offers new insights into this major event by using a wide range of Ottoman and Arabic as well as Western sources. These essays in French and English collected by Benjamin Lellouch and Nicolas Michel examine to what extent the Ottoman conquest altered the structures of Egyptian society, power relations, literature, arts and material culture. They explore both its backgrounds and geopolitical aftermath, and reconstruct its echoes - loud at first, then gradually fading out - in the Middle East, Italy, and the Mediterranean.