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"""Ahmad ibn Tulun (835–884) governed Egypt on behalf of the Abbasid dynasty for sixteen years, taking strides to unify what was a fractious land. An aggressive and innovative actor, he pursued an ambitious political agenda that often put him at odds with his imperial masters, who once tried to remove him by force. In spite of this, he ultimately remained loyal to the Abbasids, twice marching into Syria to wage war against their Byzantine rivals. Perhaps best known today for the mosque in Cairo that bears his name, Ibn Tulun left a lasting mark on Egyptian history and politics, but, Matthew Gordon asks, was he the hero of Egyptian ‘national’ independence that some hail him to be?"""

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'In the background of Ibn Tulun's portrait, Matthew Gordon's alert pen sketches a vivid landscape of ninth-century Egypt, transporting the reader into the heart of the major political and social issues of that transitional century. A book to be put in all hands, both enlightened amateurs and specialists of medieval Islam.' -- Mathieu Tillier, Professor of History of Medieval Islam, Sorbonne University

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Matthew S. Gordon is Professor of History at Miami University, specialising in Islamic and Middle Eastern history and pre-modern world history. He is the author of The Rise of Islam and has published widely on medieval Islamic social and political history.

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