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Diplomatic Relations between the Mamluk and Ilkhanate States from 694 To 736 AH / 1294 To 1336 AD (It is a Historical, Investigative Study)

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study, entitled "Diplomatic Relations between the Mamluk and Ilkhanate States from 694 to 736 AH / 1294 to 1336 AD," is a historical analysis that examines the diplomatic interactions between these two powers.
Lanja Talaat Obaid   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Strange” affinities

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 490-501, November 2024.
Abstract British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and—under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror—disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at iṣlāḥ (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of iṣlāḥ, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition,
Muneeza Rizvi
wiley   +1 more source

Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 5, September/October 2024.
Abstract Animal domestication led to changes in the interaction between animals and humans, including new ways of exploitation, which could potentially leave lesions on the animals' bones. This study aims to examine changes in the prevalence of pathological manifestation following changes in human‐animal interactions as a result their domestication ...
Linoy Namdar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How the Mamluk Sultan Addressed the Golden Horde’s Khan. The Form of Letters and Rules for Their Compilation

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2018
Research objectives: To study some questions of form and protocol by which the Mamluks were guided in their “written relations” with the Chinggisids of the Golden Horde.
Marie Favereau
doaj   +1 more source

Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ways in which the Arabic sīra a genre loosely akin to the romance or chivalric epic can be incorporated into undergraduate teaching on medieval romance. Drawing on my own pedagogical experience and guided by ongoing critical work on decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, I demonstrate the values and challenges ...
Shazia Jagot
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of water extraction technology (spring tunnels) in the Southern Levant during the last three millennia

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 375-395, July/August 2024.
Abstract A spring tunnel is an ancient water installation used to artificially increase the water yield of a spring through a subterranean tunnel. We have developed a database of 216 spring tunnels documented in the central region of the Southern Levant (present‐day Israel), constructed between Iron Age II and the modern era.
Azriel Yechezkel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foundation of the Caliphate under the Shadow of the Mamluk Sultans

open access: yesGaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2011
After been seized Baghdad and eliminated the Abbasid Caliphate by Ilkhans in 1258, the authority of the caliphate that has a serious importance for Turk-Islām World, wouldn‟t appear in the historical secene for three years.
Abdullah Mesut AĞIR
doaj  

The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
wiley   +1 more source

Mamluk History through Architecture

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2012
This exhaustive series of fifteen essays, all produced by the author during 1989-2005, covers many relevant facets of the Mamluk slave dynasty (1250– 1517).
Tammy Gaber
doaj   +1 more source

Fortune and Misfortune in the Mamluks

open access: yesTürkiyat Mecmuası
Like all other societies, Mamluks believed that many things carried messages about situations that would happen in the future. The historians ibn Iyâs and Abdülbâsıt el-Malatî in particular mentioned circumstances that were deemed auspicious and ...
Tülay Yürekli
doaj   +1 more source

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