Amalia Levanoni
Amalia Levanoni (; born June 22, 1944) is an Israeli historian and professor emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Haifa. She specializes in the history of Mamluks and the Mamluk Sultanate.She was born in Basra, Iraq. She immigrated with her family in 1951 and has lived in Haifa since 1959. She studied at the University of Haifa and then at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her doctorate degree, which she received in 1990 in Islamic history. Her advisor was Nehemia Levtzion. Provided by Wikipedia
Developing perspectives in Mamluk history : essays in honor of Amalia Levanoni /
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The present volume contains seventeen essays on the Mamluk Sultanate, an Islamic Empire of slaves whose capital was in Cairo between the 13th and the 16th centuries, written by leading historians of this period. It discusses topics as varied as social and cultural issues, women in Mamluk society, literary and poetical genres, the politics of material culture, and regional and local politics. The volume presents state of the art scholarship in the field of Mamluk studies as well as an in-depth review of recent developments. Mamluk studies have expanded considerably in recent years and today interests hundreds of active researchers worldwide who write in numerous languages and constitute a vivid and strong community of researchers, some of whose best research is presented in this volume. With contributions by Reuven Amitai; Frédéric Bauden; Yuval Ben-Bassat; Joseph Drory; Élise Franssen; Yehoshua Frenkel; Li Guo; Daisuke Igarashi; Yaacov Lev; Bernadette Martel-Thoumian; Carl Petry; Warren Schultz; Boaz Shoshan; Hana Taragan; Bethany J. Walker; Michael Winter; Koby Yosef; Limor Yungman.
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The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society /
: "Based on presentations at an international conference held at the Universities of Haifa and Tel-Aviv, May 2000". : xxii, 450 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9004132864