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The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society / edited by Michael Winter and Amalia Levanoni.
Van Pelt Library DT96 .M21556 2004b
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 51.
- The Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mamelukes--Congresses.
- Mamelukes.
- History.
- Egypt--History--1250-1517--Congresses.
- Egypt.
- Syria--History--1260-1516--Congresses.
- Syria.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 450 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- This volume is a collection of studies by leading historians on central aspects of the Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and of Ottoman Egypt (16th-18th century) where the Mamluks survived under the Ottoman suzerainty.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Formative Stage of the Mamluk Sultanate
- Chapter 1 Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars's Red Mosque at Safed / Hanna Taragan 3
- Chapter 2 The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties / Reuven Amitai 21
- Part 2 Mamluk Archival Evidence
- Chapter 3 Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem / Donald Richards 45
- Chapter 4 The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place / Frederic Bauden 59
- Part 3 Continuity and Change in the Mamluk Army
- Chapter 5 The Sultan's Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism? / Amalia Levanoni 79
- Chapter 6 Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered / Robert Irwin 117
- Part 4 Provincial Administration in Mamluk Palestine
- Chapter 7 The Governance of Jerusalem under Qaytbay / Donald Little 143
- Chapter 8 Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period / Joseph Drory 163
- Part 5 Ibn Taymiyya and Mamluk Society
- Chapter 9 Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths / Yossef Rapoport 191
- Part 6 Mamluk Economy
- Chapter 10 The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period / Warren Schultz 221
- Chapter 11 The muhtasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution / Jonathan Berkey 245
- Chapter 12 The Estate of al-Khuwand Fatima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor / Carl Petry 277
- Part 7 The Mamluks in Syria
- Chapter 13 Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study / Michael Winter 297
- Chapter 14 The Last Mamluk Household / Thomas Philipp 317
- Chapter 15 Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of Socio-cultural Forces / Nimrod Luz 339
- Part 8 The Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt
- Chapter 16 The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century / Andre Raymond 359
- Chapter 17 Problems of 'Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda's Leadership of the Qazdughli Faction / Daniel Crecelius 373
- Chapter 18 Mamluk "revivals" and Mamluk Nostalgia in Ottoman Egypt / Jane Hathaway 387
- Chapter 19 Bedouin and Mamluks in Egypt
- Co-existence in a State of Duality / Rewen Aharoni 407.
- Notes:
- Based on presentations at an international conference held at the Universities of Haifa and Tel-Aviv, May 2000. This conference was a sequel of a similar symposium that had convened in 1994 at Bad Homburg, Germany.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004132864
- OCLC:
- 52197636
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