Ubi sumus? Quo vademus? : : Mamluk studies a state of the art / / Stephan Conermann (ed.).

• TeilnehmendeR: Conermann, Stephan.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mamluk Studies - Band 003
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Sources, which have so far often been overshadowed by chronicles and normative literature, are also the focus of interest of this book. Treatises against unacceptable innovations, pilgrims' guidebooks, travel reports, prosopographical and biographical writings, journals and diaries, folk novels, documents and law manuals can provide us with valuable information. But what generally applies for Mamlukology is the fact that an enormous amount of fundamental work in the edition of texts remains yet to be done. Many Mamlukists are primarily engaged in this activity. It may also have been this unavoidable focus on handwritten materials that resulted in the fact that the scholars studying the Mamluk Era have only very rarely occupied themselves with interdisciplinary questions or theoretical hypotheses. Nevertheless, during the last ten years a lot of innovative research has been done in this field. For the first time, this book presents the state of the art with regards to the Mamluk "Empire".

Table of Contents

Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Stephan Conermann: Quo vadis, Mamlukology? (A German Perspective); 1. Mamlukology (in Germany) - some general remarks; 2. Mamlukology as Cultural Studies; 3. One Possibility: Mamlukology as Historical Anthropology; 4. Summary and Conclusion; Literature; Thomas Bauer: Mamluk Literature as a Means of Communication; Pragmatic and literary communication; Dedication; Address; Address and response; Exchange; Intertextuality - simple and complex; Shared intertextuality; Cross Intertextuality; Paratexts; Combinations; Conclusion; Bibliography

Primary SourcesManuscripts; Secondary Sources; Caterina Bori: Theology, Politics, Society: the missing link. Studying Religion in the Mamluk Period; Defining the Problem; Overcoming Generalization: a refinement in the field; Theology, Politics, Society: the missing link; Some Examples; First Example; Second Example (and an open question); Third Example; Theology and Ordinary People; Conclusions; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Albrecht Fuess: Mamluk Politics; Introduction; Legitimacy of the Mamluks; Succession of sultans; Financial administration; Foreign policy; Military

ConclusionBibliography; Primary; Secondary; Syrinx von Hees: Mamlukology as Historical Anthropology; State of the art and future perspectives; Bibliography; Thomas Herzog: Mamluk (Popular) Culture.; The State of Research; Literature; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Konrad Hirschler: Studying Mamluk Historiography. From Source-Criticism to the Cultural Turn; Mapping the Field of Mamluk Historiography; Approaches and Debates; The Uses of Historiographical Texts; Biographical Dictionaries and Social/Cultural Histories; Biographical Dictionaries and the Archival Turn; Literature

Primary SourcesSecondary Sources; Digital resources; Th. Emil Homerin: Sufism in Mamluk Studies: A Review of Scholarship in the Field; Literature; Primary Sources; Secondary sources; Carine Juvin: Mamluk Inscriptions; Illustrations; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Sale catalogues; Paulina B. Lewicka: Did Ibn al-Hạ̄jj Copy from Cato? Reconsidering Aspects of Inter-Communal Antagonism of the Mamluk Period; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Christian Müller: Mamluk Law: a reassessment; Did Mamluk Law Exist?

Legal Documents and fiqh-Norms in Mamluk qādị̄-JurisdictionPredictability of Law: valid and applied fiqh-rules; Mamluk Legal Literature and Practised fiqh-Rules; Islamic Law as Mamluk State Law?; Mamluk Legal Institutions; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Internet; Lucian Reinfandt: Mamlūk Documentary Studies; Definitions; State of the art; Editions in collected volumes; Editions in articles; Studies on the basis of edited documents; Auxiliary tools; Trends and priorities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Internet links; Paper read at a conference

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