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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Tree of pearls : the extraordinary architectural patronage of the 13th-century Egyptian slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr
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The woman known as "Tree of Pearls," who ruled Egypt in the summer of 1250 was unusual in every way. A rare case of a woman ruler, her reign marked the shift from Ayyubid to Mamluk rule, and her architectural patronage of two building complexes changed the face of Cairo and had a lasting impact on Islamic architecture. Rising to power from slave origins, Tree of Pearls-her name in Arabic is Shajar al-Durr-used her wealth and power to add a tomb to the urban madrasa (college) that had been built by her husband, Sultan Salih, and with this innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed archite++654ctural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice that remains widespread today. This was the first occasion in Cairo in which a secular patron's relationship to his architectural foundation was reified through the actual presence of his body. The tomb thus profoundly transformed the relationship between architecture and its patron, emphasizing and emblematizing his historical presence. Indeed, the characteristic domed skyline of Cairo that we see today is shaped by such domes that have kept the memory of their named patrons visible to the public eye. This dramatic transformation, in which architecture came to embody human identity, was made possible by the sultan-queen Shajar al-Durr, a woman who began her career as a mere slave-concubine.Her path-breaking patronage contradicts the prevailing assumption among historians of Islam that there was no distinctive female voice in art and architecture
Newsletter, Number 104 (SPRING 1978)
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CONTENTS:
ARCE News--
Annual Meeting, 1978--
Publications--
Research Experiences in Cairo, Alexandria, and Beirut / David B. Ruedig--
The Nag Hammadi Codices Editing Project: A Final Report / Stephen Emmel--
From Mawla to Mamluk: Origins of Islamic Military Slavery / Daniel Pipes--
Change in the Arabic Music Tradition of Cairo: 1932-1977 / Salwa El-Shawan
Newsletter, Number 95 (FALL 1975 - WINTER 1976)
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CONTENTS:
1975 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers The Amarna Period of Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt--
A Bibliography: 1965-1974 by Edward K. Werner Society and Stress: Crises, Disorders and Disasters in Mamluk Egypt / by William F. Tucker--
Accumulation and Quantitative Analysis of Numismatic Data for a Study of Mediaeval Egyptian Production of Gold Coinage / by A. S. Ehrenkreutz--
The Center’s Guest Book--
Memorial Jazz Collection at USIS Library In Cairo to Honor Toto Misketian--
ARCE Membership--
Minutes of Meeting of Members--
Notes Erom Princeton.