Studies on the History and Culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517).

• Superior document: Mamluk Studies ; v.25
• Author: Conermann, Stephan.
• TeilnehmendeR: Miura, Toru.; Igarashi, Daisuke.; Kollatz, Anna.; Nakamachi, Nobutaka.; Mauder, Christian.; Matsuda, Toshimichi.; Kondo, Manami.; Kumakura, Wakako.; Ito, Takao.
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mamluk Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Stephan Conermann: Mamluk Studies 2010-2020: an overview plus research gaps -- Body -- 1. Politics -- 2. Everyday life -- 3. Religion -- 4. Education, Knowledge, Science -- 5. Law -- 6. Art and Architecture -- 7. Research Gaps -- 7.1. The Mamluk Empire in its Global Context -- 7.2. Economic Areas of Interaction -- 7.3. "Rule" in the Mamluk Empire-A Cross-cultural Comparison -- 7.4. Culture-specific Narrative Strategies in Mamluk Era Historiographical Sources -- 7.5. Environment -- 7.6. From "Art History" to "Material Culture" -- 7.7. Im/mobility. Focus: migration -- 7.8. Frontiers, Boundaries, Borders -- Daisuke Igarashi: Charity and Endowments of the Civilian Elite: The Case of Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ, the nāẓir al-jaysh (d. 854/1451) -- 1. Life of Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ -- 2. ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ's waqf and charitable projects -- 2.1. Egypt -- 2.1.1. Madrasah-jāmiʿ in Cairo -- 2.1.2. Fasqīyah and ḥawḍ al-sabīl outside Cairo -- 2.1.3. Financial support for a mīḍaʾah (ablution fountain) of the Mausoleum of al-Layth b. Saʿd in al-Qarāfah al-Ṣughrā quarter outside of Cairo -- 2.1.4. Mausoleum in the Ṣaḥrāʾ quarter outside of Cairo -- 2.1.5. Suḥābah for hajj pilgrims -- 2.1.6. Sabīl in Cairo -- 2.2. Syria -- 2.2.1. Khānqāh in Damascus -- 2.2.2. The Quran reciter and his servant at the Umayyad mosque -- 2.2.3. Madrasah-khānqāh in Jerusalem -- 2.2.4. Madrasah in Gaza -- 2.2.5. Mausoleum at the foot of Mt. Qāsiyūn, Damascus -- 2.3. Hijaz -- 2.3.1. Sabīl in Mecca -- 2.3.2. Financial assistance to the hospital in Mecca -- 2.3.3. Sabīl in Medina -- 2.3.4. Biʾr (well) on the Hijaz route -- 2.3.5. Madrasah-khānqāh in Mecca -- 2.3.6. Madrasah in Medina -- 2.3.7. Sabīl and biʾr in Mecca -- 2.3.8. Repairing Roads in the Hijaz -- 3. Charitable projects by other bureaucrats -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Primary Sources -- Studies -- Anna Kollatz: Tracing Ibn Iyās' Narrative: Intertextual Compilation from the Jawāhir al-sulūk and theʿUqūd al-juman to the Badāʾiʿ al-zuhūr -- 1. Ibn Iyās' work and his historiographical corpus -- 2. Compilation -- 3. Approaching Compilation Processes -- 3.1. Comparative translation -- 3.2. Reading Horizontally: Compilation Analysis -- 3.2.1. Literal Consistency (light grey) -- 3.2.2. Paraphrase (grey) -- 3.2.3. Additional/Diverging Material (dark grey) -- 3.3. Reading Vertically: Narratological Analysis -- Conclusion: More questions than answers -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Nobutaka Nakamachi: A Historiographical Analysis of the Four Chronicles Attributed to Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī -- 1. Studies -- 2. ʿIqd al-jumān: the major chronicle -- 3. Taʾrīkh al-badr, the minor chronicle -- 4. The Mukhtaṣar of the ʿIqd al-jumān -- 5. The Mukhtaṣar of the Taʾrīkh al-badr -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Tables -- Christian Mauder: A Severed Head, a Poetry Slam, and a Shiʿi Visiting al-Shāfiʿī's Tomb: Symbolic and Literary Communication in Mamluk-Safavid Diplomatic Encounters -- 1. Historical Background -- 2. Case Studies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Toshimichi Matsuda: Dhimmī Society in the Mamluk Period -- 1. Methodology: Islamic social theory -- 2. Social groups -- 3. Dhimmī Society in the Mamluk Period -- 3.1. The relationship between state power and the dhimmīs -- 3.2. The relationship between the dhimmīs and the ʿulamāʾ (shāhids, qāḍīs) -- 3.3. How were Islamic laws applied to dhimmīs? -- 3.4. ʿUlamāʾ who were involved in drawing up these documents -- 4. The relationship between dhimmī society and the monastery (the relationship between settled society and the monastery) -- 5. The relationship between nomadic society and the monastery -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Sources -- Studies -- Manami Kondo: The ʿulamāʾ in the Mamluk Period: A Re-examination of the al-Subkī Family -- 1. Taqī al-Dīn ʿAlī al-Subkī's Life and Career -- 2. The al-Subkī Family after Taqī al-Dīn ʿAlī: Their Posts -- 3. The al-Subkī Family after Taqī al-Dīn ʿAlī: Their Relatives by Marriage -- 3.1. The al-Misallātī Family -- 3.2. The Ibn al-Munajjā Family -- 3.3. The Ibn al-Muraḥḥil Family -- 3.4. The Others -- 4. Economic Situation of the ʿulamāʾ -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Wakako Kumakura: Sugar to Grains. An Agricultural Shift in Medieval Fayyum -- 1. An Era of Natural Disasters: Weather, Plagues, and the Rising of the Nile -- 2. Sources -- 2.1. Ibn al-Jīʿān (d. 885/1480), Kitāb al-Tuḥfah al-sanīyah bi-asmāʾ al-bilād al-miṣrīyah (hereinafter, Tuḥfah) -- 2.2. Daftar al-tarbīʿ wilāyat al-fayyūm sanat 933 (the Cadastral Survey Register of Fayyum Province for 1527-28, Reg. 3001-000113) and Daftar al-tarbīʿ wilāyat al-fayyūm sanat 934 (the Cadastral Survey Register of Fayyum Province for 1528-29, Reg. 3001-000115) -- 2.3. Daftar jayshī (The Register of the Army, Reg. 3001-000106) -- 3. Analyses -- 3.1. Size of the cultivated area -- 3.2. Cultivated crops -- 3.3. Diversities in a region -- 4. Comparison between Provinces -- 5. Agenda for the Study of Rural Society -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Acknowledgement -- Takao Ito: Careers and Activities of mamlūk Traders: Preliminary Prosopographical Research -- 1. Khawājā -- 2. Tājir al-mamālīk -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Mamluk amirs appointed as tājir al-mamālīk -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Toru Miura: Who and What led Urban Riots in the late Mamluk Period? Reconsidering the zuʿr and Popular Actions in Damascus -- 1. Popular Actions in Damascus at the End of the Mamluk Period -- 2. The Activities of the zuʿr and their Character.

3. The Popular Revolt in 1501 -- 4. Verifying the Conclusion from other Sources and Perspectives -- 4.1. New Historical Sources -- 4.2. Literature and Thought -- 4.3. Analogue Study -- 4.4. Ambiguous Notion of Justice and Injustice -- 5. A Comparative Way: An Agenda -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Mohammad Gharaibeh: Intertextuality between History and Hadith Studies: The Mūqiẓah fī ʿilm muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth in the Center of al-Dhahabī's (d. 748/1348) work -- 1. Al-Dhahabī and his efforts in the field of Hadith studies -- 1.1. Post-canonical Hadith studies and transmission of Hadith in the Mamluk period -- 1.2. Al-Dhahabī's education, teaching positions and work in Hadith studies -- 1.2.1. Teaching Positions -- 1.2.2. Al-Dhahabī's Hadith-related works -- 2. The Mūqiẓah fī muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth -- 2.1. The discipline of the ʿulūm al-ḥadīth -- 2.2. The Mūqiẓah fī muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth in comparison -- 2.2.1. Structural Comparison -- 2.2.2. Comparison of content -- 2.2.3. Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ -- 2.2.4. Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd -- 2.2.5. Al-Dhahabī -- 2.3. Intertextuality in al-Dhahabī's writings -- 2.3.1. The soundest chain (aṣaḥḥ al-asānīd) -- 2.3.2. The accepted narration (al-ḥadīth al-ḥasan) -- 2.3.3. The generations of transmitters (ṭabaqāt al-ḥuffāẓ) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Studies -- Takenori Yoshimura: The Role of Middle and Lower Rank Military Officers in Fourteenth-Century Mamluk Egypt: Establishment and Development of the Regional Administration Offices of wālī and kāshif -- 1. Provinces and Regional Administration in the Mamluk Period -- 2. Benefits and Responsibilities of Regional Administrators -- 3. Requirements and Characterization of a Regional Administrator: The Case of ʿIzz al-Dīn Azdamr al-Aʿmā al-Kāshif -- 4. Background and Establishment of the Office of nāʾib in Upper and Lower Egypt -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Sources.

Studies -- List of Contributors.