The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society
| Author/creator | Winter, Michael, 1934- Editor |
| Other author | Levanoni, Amalia Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden : BRILL Boston : Brill USA, Inc. [Distributor] |
| Description | xxii, 450 p. ill 25.000 x 017.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | The Medieval Mediterranean Ser. Vol. 51 |
| Summary | Annotation This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks (manumitted military slaves, mostly Turks and Circassians). It was a Sunni orthodox state that had a formidable military, a developed and sophisticated economy, a centralized Arab bureaucracy and prestigious religious and educational institutions. There are special articles about Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Safed and Acre. The last part of the volume describes the Mamluk military class that survived in Egypt (although in a transformed form) under the Ottoman suzerainty after the Empire annexed Egypt and Syria in 1517.With contributions by Reuven Aharoni, Reuven Amitai, Frederic Bauden, Jonathan Berkey, Daniel Crecelius, Joseph Drory, Jane Hathaway, Robert Irwin, Donald Little, Nimrod Luz, Carl Petry, Thomas Philipp, Yossef Rapoport, Andri Raymond, Donald S. Richards, Warren Schultz and Hannah Taragan |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003051917 |
| ISBN | 9789004132863 |
| ISBN | 9004132864 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9789004132863 |
| Stock number | 00815219 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |