Developing perspectives in Mamluk history : : essays in honor of Amalia Levanoni / / edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ben-Bassat, Yuval.; Levanoni, Amalia.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization 143.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Already Rich? Yet ‘Greed Deranged Him’ /; Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the ‘Mamlūk Family’ /; Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste /; Du sang et des larmes /; The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era /; Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities /; Slave Girls and Learned Teachers /; On Marriage in Damascus, 1480–1500 /; Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling /; Maqriziana xiii: An Exchange of Correspondence between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī /; Sultan Selīm’s Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliyā Çelebi’s Seyāḥatnāme /; Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence /; Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia /; The Struggle over Water /; What was there in a Mamluk Amīr’s Library? /; Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus /; Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son /; Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004345051
• ISSN: 0929-2403
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat.

The present volume contains seventeen essays on the Mamluk Sultanate, an Islamic Empire of slaves whose capital was in Cairo between the 13th and the 16th centuries, written by leading historians of this period. It discusses topics as varied as social and cultural issues, women in Mamluk society, literary and poetical genres, the politics of material culture, and regional and local politics. The volume presents state of the art scholarship in the field of Mamluk studies as well as an in-depth review of recent developments. Mamluk studies have expanded considerably in recent years and today interests hundreds of active researchers worldwide who write in numerous languages and constitute a vivid and strong community of researchers, some of whose best research is presented in this volume. With contributions by Reuven Amitai; Frédéric Bauden; Yuval Ben-Bassat; Joseph Drory; Élise Franssen; Yehoshua Frenkel; Li Guo; Daisuke Igarashi; Yaacov Lev; Bernadette Martel-Thoumian; Carl Petry; Warren Schultz; Boaz Shoshan; Hana Taragan; Bethany J. Walker; Michael Winter; Koby Yosef; Limor Yungman.