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; Frederic Bauden; Yuval Ben-Bassat; Joseph Drory; Elise 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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"In my view this volume offers a nice entry point into the field of Mamluk history. It offers a taster of the range of perspectives that have and are being taken by scholars in the field, as well as a fine introduction to a number of its historical sources." - Daisy Livingston, in: Wiener Zeitschrift fuer die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019)
"... this collection of articles is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Mamluks. With its combination of articles by both well-established scholars as well as relative newcomers to the discipline, it provides an excellent, remarkably rich and multifaceted cross section of the state of the art in the burgeoning field of Mamluk history." - Laurenz Kern, Freie Universitaet Berlin, in: Die Welt Des Islams 59 (2019)
"... the volume constitutes an important read for scholars and students of the Mamluk Period as well as of the respective fields of inquiry beyond that field. This is also true for further subjects such as numismatics, manuscript studies, institutional history, or food studies." - Torsten Wollina, Orient-Institut Beirut, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95/2 (2018)
"In their remarkable variety, these seventeen papers nicely illustrate the different terrains of scholarship on which Amalia Levanoni has been operating since the 1980s. Whereas some of them continue to situate themselves comfortably in longstanding research traditions and paradigms, quite a few simultaneously demonstrate the expanding range of research perspectives - including social theory, literary criticism, codicology, anthropology and archaeology - that have started to transform Mamluk studies into an interdisciplinary field by default. Beyond the individual value of quite a few of the papers in this volume, the latter general observation certainly also adds to the importance of this volume as a whole." - Jo Van Steenbergen, University of Gent, in: English Historical Review 134/569 (2019)
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Yuval Ben-Bassat, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. He has published extensively on Greater Syria during the late Ottoman period, including Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine (Tauris 2013).
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Acknowledgments
Professor Amalia Levanoni's Contribution to the Field of Mamluk Studies
Michael Winter
Introduction
Yuval Ben-Bassat
A. Social and Cultural Issues
1. Carl Petry
"Already Rich? Yet 'Greed Deranged Him': Elite Status and Criminal Complicity in the
Mamluk Sultanate"
2. Koby Yosef
"Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the 'Mamluk Family'"
3. Limor Yungman
"Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste: The Mamluk Case"
4. Bernadette Martel-Thoumian
"DU SANG ET DES LARMES: LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE D'A?ALBAY AL-JARKASIYYA (m. en 1509)"
5. Daisuke Igarashi
"The Office of the Ustadar al-?Aliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era"
B. Women in Mamluk Society
6. Yaakov Lev
"Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities"
7. Yehoshua Frenkel
"Slave Girls and Learned Teachers: Women in Mamluk Sources"
8. Boaz Shoshan
"On Marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500"
C. Literary and Poetical Genres
9. Li Guo
"Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling: Ibn Taghribirdi on the Yalbugha Affair"
10. Frederic Bauden
"Maqriziana XIII: An Exchange of Correspondence Between al-Maqrizi and al-Qalqashandi"
11. Michael Winter
"Sultan Selim's Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliya ?elebi's Seya?atname"
D. The Politics of Material Culture
12. Warren Schultz
"Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence"
13. Hana Taragan
"Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia: Turbat al-Kubakiyya in the Mamilla Cemetery,
Jerusalem (688/1289)"
14. Bethany J. Walker
"The Struggle over Water: Evaluating the 'Water Culture' of Syrian Peasants under Mamluk Rule"
15. Elise Franssen
"What was there in a Mamluk Amir's Library? Evidence from a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript"
E. Regional and Local Politics
16. Reuven Amitai
"Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwa Document from
Damascus"
17. Joseph Drory
"Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son: Some Glimpses into the Career of ?ashtamur ?ummu? Akh?ar"
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