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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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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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Book Review: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History by Carl F. Petry [PDF]
A review of The Mamluk Sultanate: A History (2022), by Carl F ...
Banister, Mustafa
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Ilkhanid Sources in the Mamluk Sultanate: The Use of Juvaynī’s Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā by al-ʿUmarī and Ibn Kathīr [PDF]
In the Mamluk Sultanate there was clearly not only an elaborate interest in the Mongols, but an active exchange of ideas and information between the sultanate and Mongol territories, especially the Ilkhanate.
van den Bent, Josephine
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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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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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MedievalistaAgainst the assumption that premodern diplomacy was mostly taking place among equals, this article aims to investigate several cases of parallel diplomacy during the 15th century between the Timurids, the Qara Qoyunlu and the Mamluk sultanate in Cairo ...
Malika Dekkiche
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Satin weave in figured textiles of the second half of the 13th–15th centuries [PDF]
Крымское историческое обозрениеThe article focuses of the distribution of weaving techniques of patterned silk fabrics based on satin weave beginning from the second half of the 13th to the 15th centuries throughout the entire territory of the transcontinental trade networks known as ...
Anastassia Teplyakova
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Золотоордынское 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
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