The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and SocietyMichael Winter, Amalia Levanoni 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, Andre Raymond, Donald S. Richards, Warren Schultz and Hannah Taragan. |
Contents
CHAPTER TWO The Mongol Occupation | 21 |
CHAPTER THREE Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society | 45 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery | 59 |
A Sign of | 79 |
CHAPTER SIX Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk | 117 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Governance of Jerusalem under | 143 |
CHAPTER NINE Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths | 191 |
CHAPTER TEN The Circulation of Dirhams in | 221 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Mamluks and their Households in Late | 297 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Last Mamluk Household | 317 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Urban Residential Houses | 339 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at | 359 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Problems of Abd alRaḥmān | 373 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Mamluk revivals and Mamluk | 387 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN Bedouin and Mamluks | 407 |
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CHAPTER ELEVEN The muhtasibs of Cairo under | 245 |
CHAPTER TWELVE The Estate of alKhuwand Fatima | 277 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abd al-Raḥmān Abū Acre Aghā Aḥmad al-Ashraf al-Dīn al-Jawharī al-Jazzār al-Malik al-Maqrīzī al-Mu'ayyad al-Sakhāwī al-Sulūk al-Zahir Alī appointed Arabic army Ashrafiyya awqaf Ayalon Ayān Ayyubid Bada'i Barquq Barsbay Baybars Bedouin Beirut Cairo century chronicles Circassian Citadel commander courtyard Damascus Dār dawādār dirhams divorce oaths documents Egyptian elite example Fatāwā firearms governor Gunpowder Ḥarām hisba History Ibid Ibn Iyās Ibn Taghrī Birdī Ibn Taymiyya Ibn Zunbul Ibrāhīm idem Islamic Janissaries Jaqmaq Jāwīsh Jerusalem julbān Katkhudā Khushqadam Kitāb laqab luks madrasa Mamluk amirs Mamluk dirhams Mamluk factions Mamluk household Mamluk period Mamluk sultanate Manhal military Mongol Muḥammad muhtasib muqarnas Mūsā Muslim na'ib Nujum oaths on pain Ottoman Egypt pain of divorce political portal province qāḍī Qalawun Qānṣūh Qipchaq Red Mosque reign religious rule ruler Safed silver coins slave society sources Sulayman Pasha Syria Tatar tion troops Uthman waqf Yashbak Yūnīnī