Mamluk Cairo, a crossroads for embassies : studies on diplomacy and diplomatics /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] |
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| Description: | xxvii, 881 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic history and civilization : studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; volume 161 Islamic history and civilization ; v. 161. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11795528 |
Table of Contents:
- Mamluk diplomatics: the present state of research / Frederic Bauden
- Mamluk diplomacy: the present state of research / Malika Dekkiche
- Diplomatics, or another way to see the world / Malika Dekkiche
- Strong letters at the Mamluk Court / Lucian Reinfandt
- Embassies and ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo / Yehoshua Frenkel
- Careers in diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658-741/1260-1341 / Anne F. Broadbridge
- The golden horde and the Mamluks: the birth of a diplomatic set-up (660-5/1261-7) / Marie Favereau
- Mamluk-Ilkhanid diplomatic contacts: negotiations or posturing? / Reuven Amitaie
- Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: emissaries to the Mamluks as expressions of local political ambitions and ideologies during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth centuries / Hend Gilli-Elewy
- Between Iraq and a hard place: Sultan Ahmad Jalayir's time as a refugee in the Mamluk sultanate / Patrick Wing
- Nizam al-din Shami's description of the Syrian Campaign of Timur / Michele Bernardini
- Diplomatic entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu letter datable to 818/1415 / Frederic Bauden
- Fixed rules to a changing game? Sultan Mehmed II's realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk diplomatic conventions / Kristof d'Hulster
- Diplomatic correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the last hope for Al-Andalus / Barbara Boloix-Gallardo
- Entre ifriqiya hafside et Egypte Mamelouke: des relations anciennes, continues et consolidees / Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi
- Tracking down the Hafsid diplomatic missions all the way to the Turco-Mamluk borders (892-6/1487-91) / Lotfi ben Miled
- Diplomatic networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to early Ninth/Fifteenth centuries) / Eric Vallet
- "Aggression in the best of lands": Mecca in Egyptian-Indian diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth century / John I. Meloy
- Some remarks on the diplomatic relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatabad, and Ahmadabad during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth centuries / Stephan Conermann, Anna Kollatz
- The Hati and the Sultan: letters and embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court / Julien Loiseau
- "Peace be upon those who follow the right way": diplomatic practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the end of the Eighth/Fourteenth century / Remi Dewiere
- The European embassies to the court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo / Pierre Moukarzel
- In the name of the minorities: Lisbon's muslims as emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt / Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros
- Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838-78/1435-73: the accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghri Birdi / Nicholas Coureas
- Negotiating the last Mamluk-Venetian commercial decree (922-3/1516-7): commercial liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the early Tenth/Sixteenth century / Gladys Frantz-Murphy
- Three Mamluk letters concerning the Florentine trade in Egypt and Syria: a new interpretation / Alessandro Rizzo
- Ecritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des ceremonies officielles a l' epoque Mamelouke / Ludvik Kalus
- Precious objects for eminent guests: the use of chinese ceramics in Mamluk Cairo: the Fustat ceramic collection from the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) / Valentina Vezzoli.