Research Catalog

Title

Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History : Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni / edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ben-Bassat, Yuval
• Levanoni, Amalia

Description

xxvii, 414 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"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."--Cover page 4.

Series Statement

Islamic History and Civilization ; volume 143

Uniform Title

Islamic history and civilization ; v. 143.

Subjects

• Egypt
• Egypt > History > 1250-1517
• Mamelukes
• History
• 1250-1517

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-402) and index.

Contents

Part I. Social and cultural issues -- Already rich yet "greed deranged him" : elite status and criminal complicity in the Mamluk Sultanate / Carl F. Petry -- Usages of kinship terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the notion of the "Mamluk family" / Koby Yosef -- Medieval Middle Eastern court taste : the Mamluk case / Limor Yungman -- Du sang et des larmes le destin tragique d'a'Albay al-Jarkasiyya (m. en 915/1509) / Bernadette Martel-Thoumian -- The office of the Ustadar al-'Aliya in the Circassian Mamluk era / Daisuke Igarashi -- Part II. Women in Mamluk society -- Women in the urban space of medieval Muslim cities / Yaacov Lev -- Slave girls and learned teachers women in Mamluk sources / Yehoshua Frenkel -- On marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500 / Boaz Shoshan -- Part III. Literary and poetical genres -- Songs, poetry, and storytelling / Ibn Taghri Birdi on the Yalbugha Affair / Li Guo -- Maqriziana xiii: an exchange of correspondence between al-maqrizi and al-qalqashandi / Frederic Bauden -- Sultan Selim's obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliya Celebi's Seya'atname / Michael Winter -- Part IV. The politics of material culture -- Mamluk coins, Mamluk politics and the limits of the numismatic evidence / Warren C. Schultz -- Mamluk patronage, crusader Spolia Turbat al-Kubakiyya in the Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem (688/1289) / Hana Taragan -- The struggle over water: evaluating the "water culture" of Syrian peasants under Mamluk Rule 287 / Bethany J. Walker -- What was there in a Mamluk Amir's library?: evidence from a fifteenth-century manuscript / Elise Franssen -- Part V. Regional and local politics -- Post-crusader acre in light of a Mamluk inscription and a Fatwa document from Damascus / Reuven Amitai -- Favored by the sultan, disfavored by his son / Joseph Drory.

Call Number

JFE 17-10489

ISBN

• 9789004340466
• 9004340467

LCCN

2017031834

OCLC

974964195

Title

Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History : Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni / edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Islamic History and Civilization ; volume 143

Islamic history and civilization ; v. 143.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-402) and index.

Chronological Term

1250-1517

Added Author

Ben-Bassat, Yuval, editor.

Levanoni, Amalia, honoree.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10489