In the Sultan's salon : : learning, religion and rulership at the Mamluk court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501-1516) / / Christian Mauder.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization ; 169
• VerfasserIn: Mauder, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; 169.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Copyright Page /; Dedication /; Acknowledgments /; Note on Transliteration, Style, and Periodization /; Abbreviations /; Chapter 1 Introduction /; Chapter 2 Historical Context and State of Research /; Chapter 3 Arabic, Turkic, and Other Sources /; Chapter 4 Learning and the Transmission of Knowledge at al-Ghawrī's Court /; Chapter 5 Religious Life at al-Ghawrī's Court /; Chapter 6 Rulership, Representation, and Legitimation of Rule at al-Ghawrī's Court /; Chapter 7 Conclusion /; Appendix 1 Works Cited in the Accounts of al-Ghawrī's majālis /; Appendix 2 Participants in al-Ghawrī's majālis /; Appendix 3 Parallel Passages in the Accounts of al-Ghawrī's majālis /; Bibliography /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004444211
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christian Mauder.

Christian Mauder's In the Sultan's Salon builds on his award-winning research and constitutes the first detailed study of the Egyptian court culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). Based mainly on understudied Arabic manuscript sources describing the learned salons of the Mamluk Sultan al-Ghawrī, In the Sultan's Salon presents the first theoretical conceptualization of the term "court" that can be fruitfully applied to premodern Islamic societies. It uses this conceptualization to demonstrate that al-Ghawrī's court functioned as a transregionally interconnected center of dynamic intellectual exchange, theological debate, and performance of rule that triggered novel developments in Islamic scholarly, religious, and political culture.