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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 Abstract The objective of this article is to review the historiography of the relationship between migration and firearms technologies in the early modern Islamic World. By examining historiographical debates on the role of firearms in early modern Islamic societies, we will look at the place of migrants in the historical literature of firearms. During
Rémi Dewière
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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 259-273, April/June 2022., 2022 Abstract The article presents the results of magnetic and ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) research carried out in Old Dongola in northern Sudan in 2018 and 2020, within the framework of a project designed to investigate the transition from Christianity to Islam taking place in the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria.
Artur Obłuski +2 more
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New Diplomatic History and Mamluk Studies: Challenges and Possibilities
CESURA, 2023 While Mamluk scholars have increasingly studied on the diplomatic relations established between the sultanate and its various correspondents in both the Christian, Mongol and Muslim worlds, they have followed first the traditional diplomatic approach ...
Malika Dekkiche
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Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2023 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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Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2022 This article concerns themes of translation, movement, and context in its examination of the intentions behind the composition of Ahmad ibn ʿArabshah's (1389–1450) mid-fifteenth-century opus of animal fables and anecdotal advice literature, the Fakihat ...
Mustafa Banister
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2023 Almost any survey of medieval Islamic history will cover the figure of Shajar al-Durr (“Tree of Pearls” in Arabic), who was one of the few women in Islamic history to hold the title of Sultan, and the only one to do so who began her life as a slave. She
Elizabeth Urban
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Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2021 This article examines the development of the theory and practice of jihad under the Circassian Sultanate in Egypt and Syria (1382–1517). The article aims to trace the development of the key aspects of the concept of jihad and reveal the peculiarities of ...
Evgeny Ilyich Zelenev +1 more
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The Chronological Process of Substituting Military Governments of the Levant from Tutush I till Saladin [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2022 Since the formation of Seljuks in the Levant, this region was subject to unrest, which continued the chaotic trend of the post-Hamdanid. What took place in the Levant in the Seljuk period was a series of replacing the governments by the soldiers of the ...
mahdi mohamadi
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Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt
Al-'Usur al-Wusta, 2020 People identified as Persians constituted one of the most prominent groups of nonlocal inhabitants in Mamluk Egypt, and earlier scholarship has paid considerable attention to Egyptian-Persian relations.
Christian Mauder
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]
, 2012 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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