Studies on the History and Culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)

Stephan Conermann, Toru Miura, Stephan Conermann, Toru Miura

• Publisher: V&R unipress
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9783847010319
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

The general field of study of this volume is the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). It contains the proceedings of the First German-Japanese Workshop held at the Toyo Bunko in Tokyo, Japan. The authors write about a variety of topics from rural irrigation systems to high diplomacy vis à vis the Safavid empire and the Ottoman threat. The volume includes case studies of important personalities and families living in the centres of Mamluk power such as Cairo and Damascus as well as analyses of contemporary writers and their stance toward the ruling military class. Next to innovation in the field, this volume is an agenda of an increasing globalisation of scholarship that is fertilizing future research.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Stephan Conermann: Mamluk Studies 2010–2020: an overview plus research gaps
• Body
• Daisuke Igarashi: Charity and Endowments of the Civilian Elite: The Case of Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ, the nāẓir al-jaysh (d. 854/1451)
• Anna Kollatz: Tracing Ibn Iyās’ Narrative: Intertextual Compilation from the Jawāhir al-sulūk and theʿUqūd al-juman to the Badāʾiʿ al-zuhūr
• Nobutaka Nakamachi: A Historiographical Analysis of the Four Chronicles Attributed to Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
• Christian Mauder: A Severed Head, a Poetry Slam, and a Shiʿi Visiting al-Shāfiʿī’s Tomb: Symbolic and Literary Communication i Mamluk-Safavid Diplomatic Encounters
• Toshimichi Matsuda: Dhimmī Society in the Mamluk Period
• Manami Kondo: The ʿulamāʾ in the Mamluk Period: A Re-examination of the al-Subkī Family
• Wakako Kumakura: Sugar to Grains. An Agricultural Shift in Medieval Fayyum
• Takao Ito: Careers and Activities of mamlūk Traders: Preliminary Prosopographical Research
• Toru Miura: Who and What led Urban Riots in the late Mamluk Period? Reconsidering the zuʿr and Popular Actions in Damascus
• Mohammad Gharaibeh: Intertextuality between History and Hadith Studies: The Mūqiẓah fī ʿilm muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīth in the Center o al-Dhahabī’s (d. 748/1348) work
• Takenori Yoshimura: The Role of Middle and Lower Rank Military Officers in Fourteenth-Century Mamluk Egypt: Establishment and Development of the Regional Administration Offices of wālī and kāshif
• List of Contributors