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Legitimizing the Mamluk Sultanate
Acta HistriaeThis paper examines the legitimation of the Mamluk state, focusing not only on its military victories over Crusaders and Mongols but also on its religious rhetoric, alliances with the ʿulamāʾ, and ties to the Abbasid caliphate.
Yusuf ÖTENKAYA
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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The Historiography of Islamic Law During the Mamluk Sultanate
, 2017 This article examines the historiography of Islamic law during the reign of the Mamluks. It asks what is specifically “Mamluk” about Islamic law and legal scholarship during the Mamluk sultanate and whether it is fruitful to view legal scholarship and ...
Matthew B. Ingalls
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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Christian intelligence service in the Mamluk state of the 14th century: an unexpected perspective [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2019 This article deals with a mysterious side note in the manuscript of an Arabic Christian prayer book, now kept in Sinai monastery of St. Catherine (Sin. ar. 241).
Konstantin Panchenko
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Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom
Literature 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
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Reuven Amitai. Holy War and Rapprochement. Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335) [PDF]
, 2016 Nearly two decades after the publication of his seminal work Mongols and Mamluks. The Mamluk-Īlkhānid War, 1260-1281, Prof. Reuven Amitai presents an updated and extended study of the sixty years’ war that opposed the Ilkhanids and the Mamluk sultanate ...
Malika Dekkiche, Dekkiche, Malika
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The Paperwork of a Mamluk Muqṭaʿ
Al-'Usur al-Wusta, 2020 This article follows prevailing trends in research on the archival practices of the premodern Middle East by emphasizing the importance of documentary life cycles.
Daisy Livingston
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Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 100-118, February 2024.Abstract Chemical analysis of glass from African archaeological sites has become a standard research tool over the past decades. Despite the multiplication of studies, the continent still exhibits vast unexplored regions. One of these is the surroundings of Lake Chad.
Sonja Magnavita +3 more
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Social Mobility and Political Power: Turkification Processes in the Mamluk Sultanate [PDF]
In the Mamluk Sultanate there were opportunities for social advancement of individuals who adopted Turkish cultural features. This phenomenon, which may be designated Turkification or Mamlukization, has received little attention in Mamluk studies, even ...
Mazor, Amir
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