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In the weeks following the demise of the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Barsbāy in Dhū l-Ḥijja 841/June 1438, although he was immediately—indeed automatically— succeeded by his son, al-ʿAzīz Yūsuf, there ensued a struggle for the sultanate.1 The protagonists ...
K. D’hulster
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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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Focusing on the Mamluks who served the Tunisian beys between the XVIIth and the XIXth centuries, this study emphasizes three questions: to what extent did servants and masters use Mamluk categorizations and distinctions, the extent of individuation ...
M’hamed Oualdi
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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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Comparative study of book coverse the timurid period and the mamluks of egypt in terms of design and motif [PDF]
Iran has a long history of technology cover and goes back to the distant past the experimental procedure to the level of perfection and the border was a miracle.
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Ottoman Messages in Kind: Emotions and Diplomatic Gifts
The article brings the theory into question that emotions in the Ottoman realm centred on love and investigates whether and if, how, emotions played a role in the empire’s diplomatic gift traffic.
Hedda Reindl-Kiel
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Mamluk authorities and anatolian realities : Jānibak al-Ṣūfī, sultan al-Ashraf Barsbāy, and the story of a social network in the Mamluk/Anatolian frontier zone, 1435-1438 [PDF]
This article engages with the 838–841/1435–1437 Anatolian adventures of the Mamluk amir Jānibak al-Ṣūfī. It demonstrates how Jānibak's narrative is a remarkable story full of meanings, which enable a more nuanced understanding of Mamluk engagements with ...
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Slave voices and experiences in the later medieval Europe
Abstract Late medieval slavery was profoundly entangled in urban life in particular. Cities all around the Mediterranean coast were implicated in the trade—although this article focuses on the Christian Mediterranean which was bound together by a general reliance on Roman law (alongside local customary laws and the canon law of the Church).
Hannah Skoda
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Al-Makrīzī’s Khitat and the Markets in Cairo during the Mamlūks Era
This study examines the markets in Cairo during the reign of the Mamlūks in the light of al-Makrīzī’s Chronicle al-Khitat. Besides those which were built during the Mamlūks era the commercial life were ongoing at the markets ...
Abdullah Mesut Ağır
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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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