VI Le Portrait du Roi! Le Portrait du Bāshā! The Sacramental Body of Muḥammad ʿAlī

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgement IX
3. Contents XI
4. List of Illustrations and Tables XV
5. Note on Transliteration XXIII
6. Chronology XXV
7. I Introduction 1
8. II The Bāshā’s Two Bodies: The Official Narrative and Muḥammad ʿAlī’s Symbolic Modality of Representation 21
9. III The Enforced Portrait: Muḥammad ʿAlī Bāshā’s Biography between Facts, Myths, Self-Perception, and the Symbolic Body of a Sovereign 46
10. IV The Bāshā, the Usṭā, and the Khawājah: On Artisans and Artists under Muḥammad ʿAlī 88
11. V From Versailles to Shubrā: The Bāshā’s Architecture, Urban Scene, Omnipotence and the Gaze of the Foreigner 125
12. VI Le Portrait du Roi! Le Portrait du Bāshā! The Sacramental Body of Muḥammad ʿAlī 176
13. VII Their Brush! His Palette: Orientalist Portraits as an Element of Muḥammad ʿAlī’s Soft-Power in Europe 237
14. VIII The Brush in the Hand of the Depicted: Muḥammad ʿAlī’s Portraits and the Saʿīdian Paradigm of Orientalism 280
15. IX Conclusion 300
16. Bibliography 307
17. Index 333