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Title

Early Mamluk diplomacy, 1260-1290 : treaties of Baybars and Qalāwūn with Christian rulers / by P.M. Holt.

Author

Holt, P. M. (Peter Malcolm)

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995.

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Description

viii, 161 pages : maps; 25 cm.

Summary

• Early Mamluk Diplomacy is based on treaties between the Mamluk sultans of Egypt, Baybars (1260-77) and Qalawun (1279-90), and Christian rulers.
• The General Introduction describes the Arabic literary sources in which these treaties have been transmitted. Their status under Islamic law is examined, followed by a description of negotiation procedures, and an account of diplomatic relations with the Christian powers. Three treaties are with the military Orders, four with Beirut, Tripoli, the Latin kingdom and Tyre, and four others with Lesser Armenia, Aragon, the Byzantine Empire and Genoa. Each has an introduction giving its historical background.
• . The work offers Islamic historians and European medievalists documentary evidence of a kind rare in pre-modern Middle Eastern history, casting light on commercial and social as well as diplomatic relations.

Series Statement

Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Islamic history and civilization ; v. 12.

Subject

• Islamic Empire > Foreign relations > Europe > Sources
• Europe > Foreign relations > Islamic Empire > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-154) and index.

Contents

Truces in Islamic law and diplomatic practice -- Procedure in the negotiation of truces -- Mamluk-Frankish diplomatic relations: 658-89/1260-90 -- 1. The treaty of al-Zahir Baybars with the Hospitallers: 665/1267 -- 2. The treaty of al-Zahir Baybars with the Lady Isabel of Beirut: 667/1269 -- 3. The treaty of al-Zahir Baybars with the Hospitallers: 669/1271 -- 4. The treaty of al-Mansur Qalawun with Bohemond VII of Tripoli: 680/1281 -- 5. The treaty of al-Mansur Qalawun with the Templars: 681/1282 -- 6. The treaty of al-Mansur Qalawun with the Latin Kingdom: 682/1283 -- 7. The treaty of al-Mansur Qalawun with King Leon III of Lesser Armenia: 684/1285 -- 8. The treaty of al-Mansur Qalawun with the Lady Margaret of Tyre: 684/1285 -- 9. The treaty between al-Mansur Qalawun and Michael VIII Palaeologus: 680/1281 -- 10. The treaty of al-Mansur Qalawun with King Alfonso III of Aragon: 689/1290 -- 11. The treaty of al-Mansur Qalawun with Genoa: 689/1290.

ISBN

9004102469 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95003021

OCLC

• 31900956
• ocm31900956

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Columbia University Libraries