Living with nature and things : : contributions to a new social history of the middle Islamic periods / / Bethany J. Walker, Abdelkader Al Ghouz (editors).

• Superior document: Mamluk Studies ; Volume 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Al Ghouz, Abdelkader,; Walker, Bethany J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V&R unipress,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: German
• Series: Mamluk studies ; Volume 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (759 pages).

This edited volume represents the research results of two international conferences organized and sponsored by the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg: "Environmental Approaches in Pre-Modern Middle Eastern Studies" and "Material Culture Methods in the Middle Islamic Periods." The following work consists of three parts, which correspond to the themes of the aforementioned conferences (Contributions to Environmental History and Material Culture Studies) and a third which bridges the gap between the two approaches (Practice and Knowledge Transfer). The present papers cover a wide range of such topics as urban pollution, local perceptions of weather, rural estate economy, Sufi understandings of nature and the body and mind, houses and socialization, text and gardens, local know-how and interdependence in medieval Syrian agriculture, crop selection and the medieval agricultural economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the physical world as a social world / Bethany J. Walker -- A medieval garden city: Mamluk Cairo's food supplies and urban landscape / Anthony T. Quickel -- The landscape of southern Bilād al-Shām through the eyes of the sixteenth-century Ottoman cosmographer Āşıḳ Meḥmed / Gül Şen -- Equipped with shovels, pickaxes, and books: treasure hunters and grave robbers in medieval Egypt / Christopher Braun -- Reassessing the building craze in Mamluk Cairo: meeting the demand of building material / Hend El Sayed -- Water and the city: Ottoman Sofia in the early modern period / Stefan Peychev -- Animal husbandry and landscape exploitation in Mamluk southern Bilād-Shām: the evidence from Tall Hisban / Chiara Corbino -- 1068 in the Fayyum: a micro-history of an environmental crisis / Yossef Rapoport -- The local ramifications of a global catastrophe: the impact of the Black Death on the Mamluk Sultanate, 1341-1382 / Rachel Hoffman -- An analysis of what fostered resilience of the Irish Sea area gaels and the Bedouin of the Mamluk frontier leading up to the Black Death / Raymond Ruhaak -- The complex of Qalāwūn in Cairo: connoisseurship in early Mamluk architecture / Iman R. Abdulfattah -- The curious case of a fourteenth-century madrasa: agency, patronage and the foundation of the madrasa of Umm al-Sulṭān Shaʻbān / Muhammad Hafez Shaaban -- Shaping the material culture of Cairo in the second half of the fourteenth century: a case study in the patronage of Amir Ṣirghatmish al-Nāṣirī / Noha Abou-Khatwa -- Contextualizing the patronage of Mamluk minbars: a case study of the minbar in the mosque of ʻAṣalbāy in Madīnat al-Faiyūm / Miriam Kühn -- Walls of identities: built environment as a social marker / Nicolò Pini -- The material culture in Shawbak between Crusaders, Ayyubids and Mamluks: the case-study of Hospitaller's Chapel / Elisa Pruno, Raffaele Ranieri, Chiara Marcotulli -- Islamic material culture in late Byzantine and early modern Greek contexts: shifting meanings and methodological problems / Nikolaos Vryzidis -- Social and cultural interpretation of material culture: the example of lighting devices in Mamluk mosques / Julie Bonnéric -- Devotion and protection: amuletic scrolls dating from the 14th century: a contribution with special consideration of Is 1624 (Dublin) / Tobias Nünlist -- "By the pen and what they inscribe": a study of pen-related rituals in Ottoman calligraphy / Bilal Badat -- Moving beyond dating: what else might the presence of Mamluk copper coins in the Petra region represent? / Warren C. Schultz -- Stuff of the mind: mother-of-pearl table cabinets of Ottoman scholars in the early modern period / Gül Kale -- The vernacularization of sixteenth-century Ottoman agricultural science in its economic context / Aleksandar Shopov -- Timekeeper-teachers and their discursive instruments: a material approach to Al-Jāmiʻ al-muf̄d fī bayān uṣūl al-taqwīm wa-l-mawālīd / Fien De Block -- The contribution of European travel literature to the study of the environmental history of the Levant (13th-15th centuries) / Yehoshua Frenkel.