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CONTROLLED SUFFERING: MORTALITY AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN 19TH-CENTURY EGYPTIAN PRISONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2004

Rudolph Peters
Rudolph Peters
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Is a Professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: r.peters@uva.nl.
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Abstract

Whereas it is required by equity and justice that, in accordance with the principles of hygiene, the gaols in the governorate and the district capitals be clean and have access to so much fresh air that a person's health is not impaired, and whereas it has been noticed that some of these prisons do not satisfy these conditions, therefore the governors are instructed to conduct personally an examination and inspection of the prisons in their governorate, together with the chief engineer and the regional health officer.

—Order of the Majlis al-Aḥkām, issued in 1849Majlis al-Aḥkām, Mahfaza 1, doc. 1/89, 16 Shaban 1265/13 June 1849, no. 451.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , August 2004 , pp. 387 - 407
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2004 Cambridge University Press

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