The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society / / edited by Michael Winter, Amalia Levanoni

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783206303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-46506-9; 9786610465064; 1-4237-1183-1; 90-474-0263-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (485 p.)
• Collana: The Medieval Mediterranean ; ; 51
• Disciplina: 962/.02
• Soggetti: Mamelukes; Egypt History 1250-1517 Congresses; Syria History 1260-1516 Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on presentations at an international conference held at the Universities of Haifa and Tel-Aviv, May 2000.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface. ix -- List of Abbreviations. xi -- List of Illustrations. xiii -- Introduction. xv -- Part One: The Formative Stage of the Mamluk Sultanate -- 1. Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars's Red Mosque at Safed. 3 -- Hanna Taragan -- 2. The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties. 21 -- Reuven Amita -- i -- Part Two: Mamluk Archival Evidence -- 3. Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Oaram al-Sharif in Jerusalem. 45 -- Donald Richards -- 4. The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place. 59 -- Frédéric Bauden -- Part Three: Continuity and Change in the Mamluk Army -- 5. The Sultan's Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism?. 79 -- Amalia Levanoni -- 6. Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered. 117 -- Robert Irwin -- Part Four: Provincial Administration in Mamluk Palestine -- 7. The Governance of Jerusalem under Qaytbay. 143 -- Donald Little -- 8. Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period. 163 -- Joseph Drory -- Part Five: Ibn Taymiyya and Mamluk ; Society -- 9. Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths. 191 -- Yossef Rapoport -- Part Six: Mamluk Economy -- 10. The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period. 221 -- Warren Schultz -- 11. The mu˙tasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution. 245 -- Jonathan Berkey -- 12. The Estate of al-Khuwand Fatima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor. 277 -- Carl Petry -- Part Seven: The Mamluks in Syria -- 13. Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study. 297 -- Michael Winter -- 14. The Last Mamluk Household. 317 -- Thomas Philipp -- 15. Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of -- Socio-cultural Forces. 339 -- Nimrod Luz -- Part Eight: The Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt -- 16. The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century. 359 -- André Raymond -- 17. Problems of 'Abd al-Ra˙man Katkhuda's Leadership of the Qazdughli Faction. 373 -- Daniel Crecelius -- 18. Mamluk "revivals" and Mamluk Nostalgia in Ottoman Egypt. 387 -- Jane Hathaway -- 19. Bedouin and Mamluks in Egypt-Co-existence in a State of Duality. 407 -- Reuven Aharoni -- Index. 435.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks (manumitted military slaves, mostly Turks and Circassians). It was a Sunni orthodox state that had a formidable military, a developed and sophisticated economy, a centralized Arab bureaucracy and prestigious religious and educational institutions. There are special articles about Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Safed and Acre. The last part of the volume describes the Mamluk military class that survived in Egypt (although in a transformed form) under the Ottoman suzerainty after the Empire annexed Egypt and Syria in 1517. With contributions by Reuven Aharoni, Reuven Amitai, Frederic Bauden, Jonathan Berkey, Daniel Crecelius, Joseph Drory, Jane Hathaway, Robert Irwin, Donald Little, Nimrod Luz, Carl Petry, Thomas Philipp, Yossef Rapoport, André Raymond, Donald S. Richards, Warren Schultz and Hannah Taragan.