Author: D.S. Richards
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315458802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Egypt and Syria in the Early Mamluk Period- Front Cover -- Egypt and Syria in the Early Mamluk Period -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Faḍl Allāh family -- The family tree -- Shihāb al-Dīn (Ibn Faḍl Allāh) al-ʻUmarī -- The Masālik al-abṣār -- The chapter on Egypt and Syria -- The translation -- Notes -- References -- Arabic texts -- Secondary sources -- Index
Author: Amalia Levanoni
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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In this volume, twelve essays by leading scholars of Mamluk history provide an informative reading and insightful analysis of the political, social and economic systems of Egypt and Syria under Mamluk rule (125-1517).
Author: Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315458816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umarī's Masālik al-absār, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of the fourteenth-century A.D. It provides a fascinating snapshot of the physical and administrative geography of this crucial region as well as insights into its society and the organization and functioning of the Mamluk state.
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004387003
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This volume is dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting.
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3899719158
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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Based on the conference "The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria" held at SOAS in 2009.
Author: D. S. Richards
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367889944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Book Description
Providing a modern English translation of a key selection of Ibn Fadl Allah al-`Umarī's Masālik al-absār, this book offers a rich description of Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks in the first half of the fourteenth-century A.D. It provides a fascinating snapshot of the physical and administrative geography of this crucial region as well as insights into its society and the organization and functioning of the Mamluk state.
Author: Michael Winter
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047402634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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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, André Raymond, Donald S. Richards, Warren Schultz and Hannah Taragan.
Author: Sami G. Massoud
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004156267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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This book examines in a detailed and comprehensive manner, the genealogy of the historiography of the Early Mamluk Circassian period and provides a source-critical assesment of the sources for the reign of al-Z?hir Barq?q (784-91, 792-801/1382-9, 1390-9).
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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This book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting. It documents the significance of private collections and their interaction with institutional libraries and the role of charitable endowments (waqf ) in the life of libraries. The market as a venue of intellectual and commercial exchanges and a production centre is explored with references to prices and fees. The social and professional background of scribes and calligraphers occupies a major place in this study, which also documents the chain of master-calligraphers over the entire Mamluk period. For her study the author relies on biographical dictionaries, chronicles, waqf documents and manuscripts.
Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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For over two hundred and fifty years the Mamluks ruled one of the great territorial Empires of the Middle Ages, centered on Egypt and Syria and controlling, at times, most of the Middle East. Irwin now provides the first scholarly history of this period in any Western language. He makes clear the unique political system of the Mamluks, in which the governing class consisted of a white slave elite. At the zenith of their power, the Mamluks were the only regime to inflict a series of defeats on the Mongols and were able to eliminate the last vestiges of the Crusader states from the Middle East. The Mamluk sultanate, during which both Islamic Architecture and technology flourished, was an important epoch in the development of Islam. It was also a period of great growth in trade between Europe and Asia and the flow of scholarship from the Arab world to Renaissance Europe. "
