The Naqib’s Daughter

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Samia Serageldin. The Naqib’s Daughter

The Naqib’s Daughter

contents

Prologue

The Enemy at the Gates

The Battle of the Pyramids

The Savants of the Nasiriya

Aboukir

The Banquet

The First Insurrection

The Reversal of Fortune

The Plague

The Tivoli

The Second Insurrection

The Assassination

The Dangerous Liaison

The Beginning of the End

The Evacuation

The Trial

Quarantine

The Emissary

The Letter

The Citadel

A Rock in the Middle of the Sea

The Great Metropolis

The Spy

Windsor Castle

The Hand of Providence

The Eagle’s Feather

Epilogue

GLOSSARY

HISTORICAL NOTES

AUTHOR’S NOTE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Also by the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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SAMIA SERAGELDIN

PART I: The First Hundred Days

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‘I won’t leave Cairo, whatever happens. Who will be left if I do?’ She had been brought to Cairo as a two-year-old and sold into a great house; she remembered nothing else. ‘I know Ibrahim Bey’s daughter Adila will stay also, and many of the other women. Don’t worry, about us – this is not the Mongols sacking Baghdad. But I’ll move some of the coffers of coins and jewels to our other houses in Cairo for safe-keeping, just in case there is any lawlessness – or if we need to pay a ransom.’

He nodded. ‘Send some valuables to the Giza estate,’ he said, turning to go.

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