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 establish...

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.