Food and foodways of medieval Cairenes : aspects of life in an Islamic metropolis of the eastern Mediterranean /
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This is a pioneering study which analyzes the food cultures of medieval Cairenes on the basis of a large corpus of historical texts in Arabic. Individual chapters discuss what, why, and how the inhabitants of medieval Cairo ate what they did, and in which ways food shaped their everyday lives. Given the complex nature of "food" and "foodways" as areas of research, the book covers such diverse subjects as the genesis of the culinary culture of Egypt's capital and various practices related to food and eating. This monograph also considers several relevant social, political and economic circumstances in medieval Cairo, studying food culture in its broader context.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004206465 :
0929-2403 ; :
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Les fatimides et la mer (909-1171) /
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The Fatimids (10th - 12th centuries C.E) are known to have been the first Shiite caliphal dynasty and to have founded Cairo, the city that became their capital in 973 when they left Tunisia for Egypt. During their reign, the Fatimids built an effective war fleet that inflicted several defeats on Christian navies. This is the first study on the Fatimid naval force and, more generally, on the role of the sea for the Fatimids whose territories touched both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. The documentation presented in this study demonstrates how, in the course of two centuries, this Ismaeli dynasty set up a maritime policy and developed a communication strategy in which their control of the sea helped legitimize their universalist claims against competing powers. Les Fatimides (10e -12e s. ap. J.-C) sont connus pour avoir été la première dynastie califale chiite et pour avoir fondé Le Caire qui devint leur capitale à partir de 973 lorsque la dynastie quitta la Tunisie actuelle pour s'installer en Egypte et prendre possession d'un empire qui s'étendait de l'Algérie orientale jusqu'à la Syrie en passant par la Sicile et certains territoires de la péninsule arabique. Durant leur règne, ils disposèrent d'une flotte de guerre efficace qui infligea plusieurs défaites aux marines chrétiennes. Au-delà de la chronologie des batailles navales, aucune étude n'existait sur le rôle de cette force navale et plus généralement sur le rôle de la mer pour les Fatimides dont les territoires touchaient à la fois la Méditerranée et la mer Rouge. La documentation met pourtant en évidence que sur durant plus de deux siècles, les Fatimides mirent en place une politique maritime qui dépassait largement les considérations militaires. Ils développèrent ainsi une stratégie de communication dans laquelle la mer jouait un rôle majeur pour à la fois légitimer les prétentions universalistes de cette dynastie ismaélienne face à des pouvoirs concurrents et pour lui permettre de survivre.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004410640
Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh : Tārīkh-i Ismāʿīliyān /
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Rashīd al-Dīn Hamadānī's (d. 718/1319) Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh has been described by many as the first world history ever. Composed in Persian for the Mongol Il-khans Ghāzān (r. 1295-1304) and Öljeitü (Uljāytu, r. 1304-16), its aim was to set out the history and condition of the Mongol people, conquerors of the world (part one), followed by a description of the other peoples and nations of the world and their histories (part two). Given its unprecedented scope, Rashīd, vizier to both rulers, mobilized a whole team of specialists, informants, and collaborators to assist him in his task. Making use of written and oral sources, the part on the Mongols is a key source on the emergence and organisation of the Mongol empire, while the second part constitutes the first attempt ever at writing a history of the world. The section published here describes the history of the Ismailis.
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1 online resource. :
9789004404236
9789648700503
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk eras IV : proceedings of the 9th and 10th International Colloquium organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 2000 an...
: IV. Proceedings of the 9th and 10th international colloquim organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 2000 and May 2001. : 1 vol. (496 p.) : ill., illustration ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9042915242
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk eras III : proceedings of the 6th, 7th and 8th international colloquium organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 1...
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xii, 471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
2877235483 (Peeters France)
9042909706 (Peeters Leuven)
The governors and judges of Egypt, or, Kitâb el ʼumarâʼ (el wulâh) wa Kitâb el qudâh of el Kindî /
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Text is numbered in Arabic characters.
The period covered extends from the conquest of Egypt by the Arabs in 641 A.D. down to the author's own day. The supplementary matter brings it down to 1033. :
4 p. ℓ., 72 pages, 1 ℓ., [12], 3-686 pages : 2 fold. maps, 6 facsim ; 25 cm.
Dress accessories of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt : proceedings of the 6th conference of the research group 'Textiles from the Nile Valley' Antwerp, 2-3 October 2009 /
: 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-307). : 9789020999365