Developing perspectives in Mamluk history: essays in honor of Amalia Levanoni

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 M...

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Published in:Islamic history and civilization
Contributors: Ben Basaṭ, Yuval (Editor) ; Levanoni, ʿAmalyah (Honoree)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2017]
In: Islamic history and civilization (Volume 143)
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Series/Journal:Islamic history and civilization Volume 143
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mameluke Empire
B Mamelucken
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Mamelukes
B Egypt History 1250-1517
B Levanoni, ʿAmalyah
B Egypt
B Festschrift
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary: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
ISBN:9004340467