Nomen est omen : David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the reign of the Turks [PDF]
This essay presents a survey and careful re-reading of some of David Ayalon’s work, with a particular focus on his 1990 “Baḥrī Mamluks, Burjī Mamlūks — Inadequate Names for the Two Reigns of the Mamlūk Sultanate”.
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia
Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Abstract This paper argues that social contexts of inequality are crucial to understanding the ethics of gestational harm and responsibility. Recent debates on gestational harm have largely ignored the social context of gestators, including contexts of inequality and injustice.
Catherine Mills
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There are numerous studies in the literature dealing with the formation years of the Mamlūk state. These studies generally focus on the issue of the legitimacy of the state due to the mamlūk origin of the sultans.
Yusuf Ötenkaya
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MEMLÜK-İLHANLI İLİŞKİLERİNDE BİR DÖNÜM NOKTASI: ŞAKHAB SAVAŞI (702/1303)
From Ayn Jalut War, there had been started a struggle between Mamluks who wantedto prevent Egypt from suffering likely attacks and to strengthen their sovereignty overSyria region for getting the mamluk transportation from Desht-i Kipchak safer ...
Fatih Yahya AYAZ
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The Golden Horde and the Mamluks. [PDF]
Research objective: to discuss characteristics of the relations between the Mamluks and the Golden Horde. Research materials: Mamluk (royal biographies, official histories, chancellery manuals, inšā’ literature), Italian, Ilkhanid and Timurid sources ...
Marie Favereau
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Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part I [PDF]
This article examines the role of Louis IX’s defeat and captivity during the Seventh Crusade in the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate. It focuses on the attempt of amir Fakhr al-Dīn ibn al-Shaykh (d. 647/1250), al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb’s (r.
El-Merheb, Mohamad
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Jan Bardi Al-Ghazali and his relationship with the Arab tribes in the Niyabah Damascus (Al-Shām), Ottoman kingdom) 922 – 926 AH / 1516 – 1520 CE [PDF]
This research examine the relationship between the deputy of Bilād Al-Shām (The Levant or Historical Syria) Jan Baradi Al-Ghazali with the Arab tribes in NiyabahDamascus (Al-Shām) , Ottoman kingdom), after he a pointed as a deputy at the beginning of the
Othman I. A, Zuhair G. A
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]
This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5).
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Truth and politics in Late Medieval Arabic historiography : the formation of Sultan Barsbāy’s State (1422‒1438) and the narratives of the Amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438) [PDF]
Throughout al-Ashraf Barsbāy’s reign as sultan of Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1422‒1438), one of the main performers and representatives of his expand- ing authority and power was the amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438).
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