Developing perspectives in Mamluk history : essays in honor of Amalia Levanoni /
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, li...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
Series:
Islamic History and Civilization
143.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.
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- Preliminary Material
- Already Rich? Yet 'Greed Deranged Him' /
- Carl F. Petry
- Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the 'Mamlūk Family' /
- Koby Yosef
- Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste /
- Limor Yungman
- Du sang et des larmes /
- Bernadette Martel-Thoumian
- The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era /
- Daisuke Igarashi
- Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities /
- Yaacov Lev
- Slave Girls and Learned Teachers /
- Yehoshua Frenkel
- On Marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500 /
- Boaz Shoshan
- Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling /
- Li Guo
- Maqriziana xiii: An Exchange of Correspondence between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī /
- Frédéric Bauden
- Sultan Selīm's Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliyā Çelebi's Seyāḥatnāme /
- Michael Winter
- Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence /
- Warren C. Schultz
- Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia /
- Hana Taragan
- The Struggle over Water /
- Bethany J. Walker
- What was there in a Mamluk Amīr's Library? /
- Élise Franssen
- Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus /
- Reuven Amitai
- Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son /
- Joseph Drory
- Bibliography
- Index.