History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250-1517) : : Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Institute for Advanced Study III.
"This volume is a collection of research essays submitted by fellows of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, an Advanced Center of Research in Mamluk Studies. It covers three themes, which correspond to the research agenda of the final three academic years of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg. These were...
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| Superior document: | Mamluk Studies ; v.24 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Gottingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mamluk Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (575 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Editorial Foreword
- Caterina Bori: Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi MS Şehid Ali Paşa 1553: A Neglected Version of Ibn Taymīya's al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿīya and Its Manuscript
- Introduction
- Part I: On the Printing History of al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿīya
- Istanbul Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi MS Şehid Ali Paşa 1553: Some Codicological Insights
- Brief Remarks on the History of the Manuscript
- The Importance of Şehid Ali Paşa 1553
- A Risāla Mukhtaṣara and a long version of al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿīya
- Chronology: Dating al-Siyāsa
- Authorship: Making Sense of Textual Fluidity
- Part II: Structure and Contents
- 1. The incipit
- 2. On Strength in Public Functions
- 3. On the Utility of Permissible Pleasures and Avoiding Excess
- 4. Knowledge of Evil as a Necessary Precautionary Measure with a View to Protect the Public Good
- 5. God's Claims (ḥuqūq allāh)
- 6. al-Ḥuqūq wa-l-ḥudūd li-ādamī muʿayyan (Rights and Penalties for Single Individuals)
- Retaliation for Offences to Dignity and Honour
- Marital Rights and Duties (al-abḍāʿ)
- Judging Fairly on Property and Transactions (al-amwāl)
- Part III
- Qāʿida fī al-ḥisba (fols. 78r-103v)
- Qāʿida fī laʿb al-shatranj (fols. 104r-117r)
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Manuscripts
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Christian Mauder: Education and Learning among Members of the Mamluk Army: Results of a Quantitative Analysis of Mamluk Biographies
- Introduction
- State of Research
- Sources and Research Method
- Quantitative Results and Examples of Well-Educated Mamlūks
- Factors Hindering and Promoting Mamluk Scholarly Activities
- Summary and Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Mustafa Banister: The Trouble with Caliphs: Some Remarks on Sultan Barqūq and the Late Fourteenth-Century Caliphal Office in Late Medieval Cairo.
- Introduction
- The Reign(s) of Barqūq (784-791, 792-801/1382-1389, 1390-1399)
- European Merchants and Travelers
- The Florentine Pilgrims of 1384
- Bertrando de Mignanelli (d. 1455)
- Emmanuel Piloti (ca. 1371-1438?)
- Late Fourteenth-/Early Fifteenth-Century Discourse on the Caliphate
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Robert Moore: The Production and Study of Shāfiʿī Fiqh Texts in Mamluk Cairo
- Introduction
- Texts and the Progression of Students' Education
- Qalqashandī on Key Fiqh Texts
- ʿAlam al-Din al-Bulqīnī's Course of Study in Fiqh
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Yehoshua Frenkel: Mamluk Soundscape. A Chapter in Sensory History
- Introduction
- Sound Studies
- Sound and Mamluk Studies
- Mamluk Authors on Sounds
- Governmental Sounds
- Civil Milieu Sounds
- Monitoring the Voices
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Reuven Amitai: The Development of a Muslim City in Palestine: Gaza under the Mamluks
- Introduction
- The Pre-Mamluk Background
- General Trends: Administration and Economy under the Mamluks
- A New Look at the Urban Fabric
- The Rural Hinterland
- Conclusions, Tentative and Otherwise
- Maps
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Primary Sources
- Modern Studies
- Haggai Mazuz: Sambari's Description of the Synagogues in Egypt - How Reliant Was It on al-Maqrīzī?
- Introduction
- Synagogues in Egypt according to al-Maqrīzī and Sambari
- The Dammūh synagogue
- The Jawjar synagogue
- The Khuṭṭ al-Maṣṣāṣa synagogue
- The Shāmiyyīn synagogue
- The ʿIrāqiyyīn synagogue
- The Qarrāʾīn synagogue
- The Rabbāniyyīn synagogue
- The Ibn Shumayḥ synagogue
- Omissions and Additions by Sambari
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources.
- Nicolò Pini: Social Structures and Built Environment in Mamluk Rural and Semi-Urban Settlements: Some Preliminary Results
- Introduction
- Preliminary Work
- Methodology: A Suggested Typology
- The Site of Tall Hisban and the "Food System Theory"
- 2016 and 2018 Tall Hisban excavations and architectural surveys
- The Built Environment in the Transregional Context
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Shireen El Kassem: Foreign Aesthetics and their Impact on Mamluk Textiles (1250-1517)
- Introduction
- Mamluk textiles in context
- Material evidence and issues of attribution
- Silks
- European silk from Mamluk Egypt
- Mamluk-Mongol exchange
- Mongol ˋshou' silks from Egypt
- ˋMamluko-Mongol' silks
- Mamluk ˋimitations'?
- Mamluk ˋinternational' style
- Other Mongol silks from Egypt
- Indian block-printed textiles
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Carine Juvin: Civilian Elite and Metalwork: A View from the Edge
- The Patronage of the Civilian Elite During the Mamluk Period: A Brief Overview
- A Case Study: Taqī al-dīn Abū Bakrʾs Candlestick in the Louvre Museum
- A New Benchmark for a Group of Late Mamluk Metalwork
- Conclusion
- Appendix: A Preliminary List of Metal Objects Made for Non-Mamluk Individuals
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Hend Elsayed: Mamluk Religious Architecture: Between Luxury and Tadbīr
- Introduction
- The Necessary Aspect of Tadbīr
- Luxury Versus Necessity / Tadbīr
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary sources
- Reem Samed Al Shqour: The Economics of the Rural and Urban Khān Markets of Mamluk Jordan
- Introduction
- Types of Markets in Jordan
- Permanent Markets
- Multi-Purpose Markets - ʿAqabat-Ayla
- Temporary and Occasional Markets
- Seasonality Along the Pilgrimage Routes
- Markets along darb al-ḥajj al-shāmi.
- Markets along darb al ḥajj al-miṣri ʿAqabat-Ayla
- The taxation of khāns
- A Certain Time of the Year (Once a Year) in Various Places
- Archaeological Consequences
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary source
- Secondary source
- Aleksandar Shopov: Grafting in Sixteenth-Century Mamluk and Ottoman Agriculture and Literature
- Introduction: the value of grafting
- Grafting in the last-known Mamluk treatise on farming
- The involvement of Damascene scholars in agricultural production
- The legal implications of grafting
- Grafting in Ottoman poetry
- The Revnaḳ-ı Būstān and the scholar who was an expert in grafting
- Markets
- Grafting and Ottoman ruling-class identity
- Adriana Gașpar: Ottoman Towns in the Light of Archaeological Finds (Ceramic Vessels): The Case of Timișoara
- Introductory Remarks and Methodology of Research
- Timișoara: Geographical and Historical Context
- Ottoman Timișoara: History and Planimetry
- Archaeological Research: Salvage Excavations
- Wooden Structures
- Streets
- Households
- Wells
- Stone and Brick Structures
- Water Supply System
- Households
- Mosques
- Cemeteries
- Defensive Wall
- Artefacts
- Types of Pottery According to Production Technology
- Characteristic Forms
- Liquid Containers: Pitchers and Ewers
- Bowls
- Plates
- Lids
- Strainers
- Candlesticks
- Stove Tiles
- Conclusion
- Catalogue
- Fig. 6
- Fig. 7
- Fig. 8
- Fig. 9
- Fig. 10
- Fig. 11
- Fig. 12
- Fig. 13
- Fig. 14
- Fig. 15
- Fig. 16
- Fig. 17
- Bibliography
- Alessandro Rizzo: Travelling and Trading through Mamluk Territory: Chancery Documents Guaranteeing Mobility to Christian Merchants
- The amān
- Distinct Chronological Phases, Different Kinds of Documents
- The hudna
- An Elaborate "Documentary Procedure"
- Chancery Instruments Allowing the Freedom of Movement after the Fall of Acre.
- Terminological Misinterpretations in Historiography
- Bilateral Stipulations Rather than Unilateral Concessions
- Commercial Rights for Communities of Merchants
- Clauses Concerning Mobility
- Theoretical Background and Diplomatic Pragmatism
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Raymond Ruhaak: The Crusades, the Development of a Centralised Arab State, and the Rise of Vulnerability Factors for Black Death
- Introduction
- Methods
- The Crusade Invasions, the Development of a Centralised Arab State and its Institutions, and the Exploitation of the Landscape
- Legitimising Centralised Power: The Expansion of Written Authority, the Rule of Law, and Increasing Bureaucratic Size and Complexity in the Medieval Roman Church and the Mamluk Empire
- The Development of Taxation and Monetisation and the Commodification of Natural Resources in Medieval Europe and the Mamluk Empire
- Evidence of High Vulnerability for a Zoonotic Epidemic and the Development of Plague in the Mamluk Empire
- Historical evidence for the development of risk factors for the Plague
- Assessing of Development Zoonotic Risk Factors in the Mamluk Empire
- Review based on the Table of Inquiries into Risk of Human Zoonotic Epidemics
- Socio-economic and knowledge systems and institutions that fostered the ecology-changing progress
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Biographies
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects and Places.