Everything is on the Move : The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks / Stephan Conermann

• HerausgeberIn: Conermann, Stephan Prof. Dr. 1964-
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mamluk studies ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Notes: "With 19 figures."

In this volume, we try to understand the "Mamluk Empire" not as a confined space but as a region where several nodes of different networks existed side-by-side and at the same time. In our opinion, these networks constitute to a great extent the core of the so-called Mamluk society; they form the basis of the social order. Following, in part, concepts refined in the New Area Studies, recent reflections about the phenomenon of the "Empire - State", trajectories in today's Global History, and the spatial turn in modern historiography, we intend to identify a number of physical and cognitive networks with one or more nodes in Mamluk-controlled territories. In addition to this, one of the most important analytical questions would be to define the role of these networks in Mamluk society.

Table of Contents

Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Body; Stephan Conermann (Bonn): Networks and Nodes in Mamluk Times: some introductory remarks; Starting out with global history; Key texts; Networks; Key texts; Egocentric Networks; Key texts; Mental Networks: Travelling Concepts and Actor-Network-Theory; Key texts; Outlook: Connectivity in Motion; Global Context; Georg Christ (Manchester): Beyond the Network - Connectors of Networks: Venetian Agents in Cairo and Venetian News Management; Introduction; Case Study: Angelo Michiel qd. Luca; Letters and Red Sea Intelligence

Consular News Management and Intelligence IntegrationMichiel's Personal Business; Conclusion; Bibliography; Sources; Archival sources; Printed sources; Map; Studies; Yehoshua Frenkel (Haifa): The Mamluks among the Nations: A Medieval Sultanate in its Global Context; Introduction; 1. The tree of Mankind; Turkic Past: "The Epic of Dede Korkut"; Tamgha; 2. Turkic in Mamluk Courts; 3. Mythological Persona: Iskandar and Baybars; 4. Topographical Continuum: Shrines and Local Rituals; Summary; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Networks

Henning Sievert (Bonn/Zürich): Family, friend or foe? Factions, households and interpersonal relations in Mamluk Egypt and Syria1. Introduction; 1.1. Social Networks; 1.2. Sources; 2. Types of relations; 2.1. Ascribed relations of kinship; 2.2. Ascribed relations of common origin; 2.3. Acquired relations of patronage and friendship; 2.4. Interim result: Mamluk relations; 3. Households and Factions; 3.1. Households; 3.2. Mamluk households between kinship and patronage; 3.3. Factions; 3.3.1. Group parties; 3.3.2. Patronage factions; 3.4. Interim result: households, parties, factions

4. Succession struggles4.1. Stand-in sultans and regents; 4.2. Restricted violence; 4.3. The ǧulbān; 4.4. Interim result: Circassian Succession; 4.5. Excursus: emirs and cardinals; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography; Sources; Literature; Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz): Networks of Greek Orthodox Monks and Clerics between Byzantium and Mamluk Syria and Egypt; (a) Ways and Modes; 1: Embassies; 2: Letters; 3: Exchange of manuscripts; 4: Individual travelling; (b) Context and Content; Bibliography of Works Cited; Printed Sources; Secondary Works

Carl F. Petry (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL): "Travel Patterns of Medieval Notables in the Near East" Reconsidered: contrasting trajectories, interconnected networks