The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2004. |
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| Description: | xxii, 450 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 51 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5058967 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Formative Stage of the Mamluk Sultanate
- Chapter 1. Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars's Red Mosque at Safed
- Chapter 2. The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties
- Part 2. Mamluk Archival Evidence
- Chapter 3. Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem
- Chapter 4. The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place
- Part 3. Continuity and Change in the Mamluk Army
- Chapter 5. The Sultan's Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism?
- Chapter 6. Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered
- Part 4. Provincial Administration in Mamluk Palestine
- Chapter 7. The Governance of Jerusalem under Qaytbay
- Chapter 8. Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period
- Part 5. Ibn Taymiyya and Mamluk Society
- Chapter 9. Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths
- Part 6. Mamluk Economy
- Chapter 10. The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period
- Chapter 11. The muhtasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution
- Chapter 12. The Estate of al-Khuwand Fatima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor
- Part 7. The Mamluks in Syria
- Chapter 13. Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study
- Chapter 14. The Last Mamluk Household
- Chapter 15. Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of Socio-cultural Forces
- Part 8. The Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt
- Chapter 16. The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 17. Problems of 'Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda's Leadership of the Qazdughli Faction
- Chapter 18. Mamluk "revivals" and Mamluk Nostalgia in Ottoman Egypt
- Chapter 19. Bedouin and Mamluks in Egypt--Co-existence in a State of Duality
- Index