Illustrations

Figure I.1. The Ottoman Empire, early 1860s

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Figure I.2. The Rulers of Egypt

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Figure 2.1. Ismail in 1845

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Figure 2.2. Ismail after 1867

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Figure 3.1. The Comédie of Cairo, 1869

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Figure 3.2. The Khedivial Opera House and the Circus, between 1869 and 1872

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Figure 3.3. A poster of Eldorado du Caire, 1869

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Figure 3.4. Allegory of the Joining of the Two Seas, 1869

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Figure 3.5. A painting of Ibrahim Pasha in the hall of the Khedivial Opera House

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Figure 4.1. Title page of Wādī al-Nīl journal, 22 October 1869

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Figure 5.1. Sheikh Salāma Ḥijāzī, possibly in 1913

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Figure 6.1. The troupe of Sulaymān Qardāḥī in Paris, 1889

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Figure 8.1. Muṣṭafā Kāmil in 1893

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