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.