Twilight of majesty : the reigns of the Mamlūk Sultans al-Ashrāf Qāytbāy and Qanṣūh al-Ghawrī in Egypt /

Twilight of majesty : the reigns of the Mamlūk Sultans al-Ashrāf Qāytbāy and Qanṣūh al-Ghawrī in Egypt /

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Main Author: Petry, Carl F., 1943- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c1993.

Series: Occasional papers ; 4.

Subjects:

Qāʼit Bāy, > Sultan of Egypt and Syria, > -1496.
Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī, > Sultan of Egypt and Syria, > -1516.
Mamelukes > History.
Egypt > History > 1250-1517.

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Call Number: DT96.7 .P48 1993

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Table of Contents:
  • Reigns of Mamluk Sultans Cited in Text
  • Map : The Citadel of Cairo
  • Map : The City of Cairo
  • Map : Egypt and Sinai
  • Map: Southeast Anatolia, Syria, and Palestine
  • Ch. 1.
  • Introduction.
  • The Sources
  • Ch. 2.
  • Al-Ashraf Qaytbay: Revered Conservator.
  • The Cursus Honorum of a Mamluk Officer.
  • Enthronement: Studied Reluctance?
  • Consolidation : Decisiveness after Equivocation.
  • The Rebellion of Shah Suwar : Provincial Insurrection.
  • The Medial Years : Facade of Grandeur.
  • The Ottoman Campaigns : Containment of a Peer.
  • Decline, 891-901/1486-1496 : Insidious Rivalry
  • Ch. 3.
  • Qansuh al-Ghawri : Vilified Innovator.
  • The Initial Period : Elusive Consolidation.
  • The Medial Years : Indulgence and Innovation.
  • Foreign Affairs in the Medial Period : Persian Belligerence, Ottoman Entente.
  • The Final Years : Scorning Old Tensions.
  • The Road to Marj Dabiq : Inexorable Conflict.
  • Aftermath
  • Ch. 4.
  • Closing Reflections
  • Bibliography 1. Narrative Sources
  • Bibliography 2. Archival Sources
  • Bibliography 3. Secondary Studies.