Mamluk Cairo, a crossroads for embassies : : studies on diplomacy and diplomatics / / Edited by Frederic Bauden, Malika Dekkiche.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bauden, Frédéric,; Dekkiche, Malika,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization 161.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (909 pages).

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy. With contributions by Frédéric Bauden, Lotfi Ben Miled, Michele Bernardini, Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, Anne F. Broadbridge, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Stephan Conermann, Nicholas Coureas, Malika Dekkiche, Rémi Dewière, Kristof D’hulster, Marie Favereau, Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Yehoshua Frenkel, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Ludvik Kalus, Anna Kollatz, Julien Loiseau, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, John L. Meloy, Pierre Moukarzel, Lucian Reinfandt, Alessandro Rizzo, Éric Vallet, Valentina Vezzoli and Patrick Wing.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Mamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of Research / Frédéric Bauden -- Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of Research / Malika Dekkiche -- Diplomatic Conventions -- 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 -- The Mongols and Their Successors -- 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 Amitai -- Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambition and Ideology during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries / Hend Gilli-Elewy -- Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sulṭān Aḥmad Jalāyir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate / Patrick Wing -- The Timurids, the Turkmens, and the Ottomans -- Niẓām al-Dīn Shāmī’s Description of the Syrian Campaign of Tīmūr / Michele Bernardini -- Diplomatic Entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter Datable to 818/1415 / Frédéric Bauden -- Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Sultan Meḥmed II’s Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions / Kristof D’hulster -- The Western Islamic Lands -- Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the Last Hope for al-Andalus / Bárbara Boloix Gallardo -- Entre Ifrīqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées / Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi -- Tracking Down the Hafsid Diplomatic Missions All the Way to the Turco-Mamluk Borders (892–6/1487–91) / Lotfi Ben Miled -- Arabia, India, and Africa -- Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) / Éric Vallet -- “Aggression in the Best of Lands”: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century / John L. Meloy -- Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatābād, and Aḥmadābād during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries / Stephan Conermann and Anna Kollatz -- The Ḥaṭī 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 / Rémi Dewière -- The Latin West -- 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 Taghrī Birdī / 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.