Format:
1 online resource (485 pages)
ISBN:
9789047402633
Content:
This work consists of 19 studies by historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE FORMATIVE STAGE OF THE MAMLUK SULTANATE -- CHAPTER ONE Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars's Red Mosque at Safed -- CHAPTER TWO The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties -- PART TWO MAMLUK ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE -- CHAPTER THREE Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Haram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem -- CHAPTER FOUR The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place -- PART THREE CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE MAMLUK ARMY -- CHAPTER FIVE The Sultan's Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism? -- CHAPTER SIX Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered -- PART FOUR PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN MAMLUK PALESTINE -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Governance of Jerusalem under Qāytbāy -- CHAPTER EIGHT Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period -- PART FIVE IBN TAYMIYYA AND MAMLUK SOCIETY -- CHAPTER NINE Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths -- PART SIX MAMLUK ECONOMY -- CHAPTER TEN The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The muhtasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Estate of al-Khuwand Fātima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor -- PART SEVEN THE MAMLUKS IN SYRIA -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Last Mamluk Household -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of Socio-cultural Forces -- PART EIGHT THE MAMLUKS IN OTTOMAN EGYPT -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004132863
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004132863
Additional Edition:
Print version The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society
Language:
English
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