Research Catalog

Title

Twilight of majesty : the reigns of the Mamlūk Sultans al- Ashrāf Qāytbāy and Qanṣūh al-Ghawrī in Egypt / Carl F. Petry.

Author

Petry, Carl F., 1943-

Publication

Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c1993.

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Details

Description

viii, 261 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Occasional papers ; no. 4

Uniform Title

Occasional papers (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Middle East Center) ; no. 4.

Subject

• Qāyitbāy al-Maḥmūdī, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1412- 1496
• Qanṣūh al-Ghūrī, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1516
• 1250-1517
• Egypt > History > 1250-1517

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Reigns of Mamluk Sultans Cited in Text -- Abbreviations -- Map: The Citadel of Cairo -- Map: The City of Cairo -- Map: Egypt and Sinai -- Map: Southeast Anatolia, Syria, and Palestine -- Ch. 1 Introduction (starting p. 3) -- The Sources (starting p. 5) -- Ch. 2 Al-Ashraf Qaytbay: Revered Conservator (starting p. 15) -- The Cursus Honorum of a Mamluk Officer (starting p. 24) -- Enthronement: Studied Reluctance? (starting p. 34) -- Consolidation: Decisiveness after Equivocation (starting p. 39) -- The Rebellion of Shah Suwar: Provincial Insurrection (starting p. 57) -- The Medial Years: Facade of Grandeur (starting p. 73) -- The Ottoman Campaigns: Containment of a Peer (starting p. 88) -- Decline, 891-901/1486-1496: Insidious Rivalry (starting p. 103) -- Ch. 3 Qansuh al-Ghawri: Vilified Innovator (starting p. 119) -- The Initial Period: Elusive Consolidation (starting p. 132) -- The Medial Years: Indulgence and Innovation (starting p. 154) -- Foreign Affairs in the Medial Period: Persian Belligerence, Ottoman Entente (starting p. 173) -- The Final Years: Scorning Old Tensions (starting p. 185) -- The Road to Marj Dabiq: Inexorable Conflict (starting p. 199) -- Aftermath (starting p. 228) -- Ch. 4 Closing Reflections (starting p. 233) -- Bibliography 1. Narrative Sources (starting p. 239) -- Bibliography 2. Archival Sources (starting p. 241) -- Bibliography 3. Secondary Studies (starting p. 241) -- Index (starting p. 245).

ISBN

0295973072 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93004632^

OCLC

• 28149516
• SCSB-11608248

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library