The way the fellah dealt with his time, his physical environment, and above all, his own body was to be radically transformed. As will be shown below, the new military life would impose timetables, medical checks and strict surveillance systems the net effect of which was intended to impress upon the new soldier the formidable barrier that would distinguish his new life in the army from his previous civilian life.

XREF: Connects to loc 123 on camps isolating recruits with separate legal codes, and loc 464 on conscription transforming government-population relations. Builds on: "Military camps isolated recruits and imposed separate legal codes."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 656