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How to make it in Cairo : the early career of Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʿī [PDF]
, 2020 How it all went wrong for Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʿī (809–85/1406–80), a fifteenth-century Quran exegete and historian active in Cairo, has been well covered.
Goudie, Kenneth
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Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources:The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the portrayal of Louis IX in medieval Arabic historiography to show the importance of cross-cultural Mediterranean interaction.
El-Merheb, Mohamad
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The Term Turkī Khāliṣ in Mamluk Sources [PDF]
The phenomenon of mamluks of Mongol origin during the early Mamluk period (roughly 648–741/1250–1341) has been studied by several scholars, but mamluks of Mongol origin during later periods have hardly received scholarly attention.
Yosef, Koby
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, 2021 This study examines how manuscripts of Arabic historical works written in the Mamluk period were transmitted, accepted, and circulated in the Ottoman period.
中町, 信孝
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The Dynastic Impulse: Mamluk Husbands, Nomadic Wives, and Family Ambitions in the Early Sultanate [PDF]
This article is an investigation of the importance of family to the early mamluks. I contend that mamluk desires to connect with their natal families at times countered the mamluk system itself with its creation of bonds between men who were not ...
Broadbridge, Anne F.
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'Mamlukisation' between social theory and social practice: an essay on reflexivity, state formation, and the late medieval sultanate of Cairo [PDF]
, 2015 This working paper is a reflexive essay that tries to think with and beyond one of the basic assumptions upon which the field of late medieval Syro-Egyptian ‘Mamluk’ studies is built: the idea that all late medieval Syro-Egyptian objects of study are by ...
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Egyptian and Italian Merchants in the Black Sea Slave Trade, 1260-1500 [PDF]
, 2014 The present study examines the merchant networks which exported slaves from the Black Sea to Genoa, Venice, and Cairo from the late thirteenth to the late fifteenth century on the basis of both Arabic and Latin sources.
Barker, Hannah
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The Maghrib in the Mashriq [PDF]
This book is about the impact of knowledge produced in the Islamic West on the Mashriq. Topics include the emergence and construction of the concept ‘Maghrib’, the role of travel in the transmission, reception and integration of locally produced ...
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Some Reflections on Timur’s Invasion of Mamluk Syria [PDF]
The Central Asian conqueror Timur-i lang entered the Mamluk dominions at the head of a formidable army in the autumn of 803/1400. I do not intend here to provide a narrative of the Syrian campaign.
Jackson, Peter
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Just taxes? tracing 14th century Damascene politics through objects, space and historiography [PDF]
In this thesis, I explore the political culture in Damascus during the 7th/13th and 8th/14th centuries by examining the symbolic practices through which sultanic rulers and their subjects negotiated local power relations.
Olsen, Rasmus Bech
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