Mamluk Cairo, a crossroads for embassies : studies on diplomacy and diplomatics /

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations establish...

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Other Authors: Bauden, Frédéric (Editor), Dekkiche, Malika (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 161.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Call Number: DT96 .M21535 2019

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Mamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of Research /
  • Frédéric Bauden
  • Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of Research /
  • Malika Dekkiche
  • Diplomatic Conventions
  • Diplomatics, or Another Way to See the World /
  • Malika Dekkiche
  • Strong Letters at the Mamluk Court /
  • Lucian Reinfandt
  • Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo /
  • Yehoshua Frenkel
  • The Mongols and Their Successors
  • Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658-741/1260-1341 /
  • Anne F. Broadbridge
  • The Golden Horde and the Mamluks: the Birth of a Diplomatic Set-Up (660-5/1261-7) /
  • Marie Favereau
  • Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing? /
  • Reuven Amitai
  • Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambition and Ideology during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries /
  • Hend Gilli-Elewy
  • Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sulṭān Aḥmad Jalāyir's Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate /
  • Patrick Wing
  • The Timurids, the Turkmens, and the Ottomans
  • Niẓām al-Dīn Shāmī's Description of the Syrian Campaign of Tīmūr /
  • Michele Bernardini
  • Diplomatic Entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter Datable to 818/1415 /
  • Frédéric Bauden
  • Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Sultan Meḥmed II's Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions /
  • Kristof D'hulster
  • The Western Islamic Lands
  • Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the Last Hope for al-Andalus /
  • Bárbara Boloix Gallardo
  • Entre Ifrīqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées /
  • Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi
  • Tracking Down the Hafsid Diplomatic Missions All the Way to the Turco-Mamluk Borders (892-6/1487-91) /
  • Lotfi Ben Miled
  • Arabia, India, and Africa
  • Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) /
  • Éric Vallet
  • "Aggression in the Best of Lands": Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century /
  • John L. Meloy
  • Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatābād, and Aḥmadābād during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries /
  • Stephan Conermann and Anna Kollatz
  • The Ḥaṭī and the Sultan: Letters and Embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court /
  • Julien Loiseau
  • "Peace Be upon Those Who Follow the Right Way": Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the End of the Eighth/Fourteenth Century /
  • Rémi Dewière
  • The Latin West
  • The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo /
  • Pierre Moukarzel
  • In the Name of the Minorities: Lisbon's Muslims as Emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt /
  • Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros
  • Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838-78/1435-73: the Accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghrī Birdī /
  • Nicholas Coureas
  • Negotiating the Last Mamluk-Venetian Commercial Decree (922-3/1516-7): Commercial Liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the Early Tenth/Sixteenth Century /
  • Gladys Frantz-Murphy.