Adam Mestyan is assistant professor of history at Duke University.
This study is a significant step in clarifying identity in the Arab provinces during the 19th century regarding both the Ottoman Empire and within the provinces themselves. * Choice * Mestyan is at his best when he excavates and reconstructs lines connecting diverse and often obscure individuals to equally diverse institutions of power. ---Wilson Chacko Jacob, American Historical Review Adam Mestyan's Arab Patriotism is an ambitious project on the Ottoman province of Egypt . . . in the nineteenth century. ---Side Emre, Bustan Arab Patriotism is an ambitious study. Dealing with Egyptian history from the 1830s to the 1890s, it addresses two hitherto relatively unexplored subjects. . . . Throughout, the study presents fresh material and opens new perspectives on Egyptian history. The book is a significant contribution to the history of modern Egypt. ---James Jankowski, Journal of Arabic Literature