The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society / edited by Michael Winter and Amalia Levanoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winter, Michael, 1934-2020.

Levanoni, Amalia.

Series:

Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 51.

The medieval Mediterranean ; v. 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mamelukes--Congresses.

Mamelukes.

Egypt--History--1250-1517--Congresses.

Egypt.

Syria--History--1260-1516--Congresses.

Syria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume consists of 19 studies by leading 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 (manumitted military slaves, mostly Turks and Circassians). It was a Sunni orthodox state that had a formidable military, a developed and sophisticated economy, a centralized Arab bureaucracy and prestigious religious and educational institutions. There are special articles about Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Safed and Acre. The last part of the volume describes the Mamluk military class that survived in Egypt (although in a transformed form) under the Ottoman suzerainty after the Empire annexed Egypt and Syria in 1517. With contributions by Reuven Aharoni, Reuven Amitai, Frederic Bauden, Jonathan Berkey, Daniel Crecelius, Joseph Drory, Jane Hathaway, Robert Irwin, Donald Little, Nimrod Luz, Carl Petry, Thomas Philipp, Yossef Rapoport, André Raymond, Donald S. Richards, Warren Schultz and Hannah Taragan.

Contents:

Preface. ix

List of Abbreviations. xi

List of Illustrations. xiii

Introduction. xv

Part One: The Formative Stage of the Mamluk Sultanate

1. Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars's Red Mosque at Safed. 3

Hanna Taragan

2. The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties. 21

Reuven Amita

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Part Two: Mamluk Archival Evidence

3. Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Oaram al-Sharif in Jerusalem. 45

Donald Richards

4. The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place. 59

Frédéric Bauden

Part Three: Continuity and Change in the Mamluk Army

5. The Sultan's Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism?. 79

Amalia Levanoni

6. Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered. 117

Robert Irwin

Part Four: Provincial Administration in Mamluk Palestine

7. The Governance of Jerusalem under Qaytbay. 143

Donald Little

8. Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period. 163

Joseph Drory

Part Five: Ibn Taymiyya and Mamluk Society

9. Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths. 191

Yossef Rapoport

Part Six: Mamluk Economy

10. The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period. 221

Warren Schultz

11. The mu˙tasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution. 245

Jonathan Berkey

12. The Estate of al-Khuwand Fatima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor. 277

Carl Petry

Part Seven: The Mamluks in Syria

13. Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study. 297

Michael Winter

14. The Last Mamluk Household. 317

Thomas Philipp

15. Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of

Socio-cultural Forces. 339

Nimrod Luz

Part Eight: The Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt

16. The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century. 359

André Raymond

17. Problems of 'Abd al-Ra˙man Katkhuda's Leadership of the Qazdughli Faction. 373

Daniel Crecelius

18. Mamluk "revivals" and Mamluk Nostalgia in Ottoman Egypt. 387

Jane Hathaway

19. Bedouin and Mamluks in Egypt-Co-existence in a State of Duality. 407

Reuven Aharoni

Index. 435.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Based on presentations at an international conference held at the Universities of Haifa and Tel-Aviv, May 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46506-9

9786610465064

1-4237-1183-1

90-474-0263-4

OCLC:

191934771

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047402633 DOI