The Mamluks in Egyptian politics and society / edited by Thomas Phillip and Ulrich Haarmaan.

Contributor(s): Philipp, Thomas, 1941- | Haarmann, Ulrich, 1942-1999Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006, Description: xiv, 306 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): 1250-1882 | Mamelukes | Mamelouks | Mamelukes | Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517 | Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882 | Egypte -- Histoire -- 1250-1517 | Egypte -- Histoire -- 1517-1882 | EgyptGenre/Form: History.LOC classification: DT96 | .M2156 2006
Contents:
Literary offerings : a genre of courtly literature / P.M. Holt -- Rank-and-file Mamluks versus amirs : new norms in the Mamluk military institution / Amalia Levanoni -- Mamluk amirs and their families and households / Donald S. Richards -- Joseph's law--the careers and activities of Mamluk descendants before the Ottoman conquest of Egypt / Ulrich Haarman -- The re-emergence of the Mamluks following the Ottoman conquest / Michael Winter -- 'Mamluk households' and 'Mamluk factions' in Ottoman Egypt : a reconsideration / Jane Hathaway -- Personal loyalty and political power of the Mamluks in the eighteenth century / Thomas Phillipp -- The Mamluk beylicate of Egypt in the last decades before its destruction by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1811 / Daniel Crecelius -- Mamluk astronomy and the institution of the Muwaqqit / David A. King -- The Mamluks as Muslims : the military elite and the construction of Islam in medieval Egypt / Jonathan P. Berkey -- The late triumph of the Persian bow : critical voices on the Mamluk monopoly on weaponry / Ulrich Haarman -- Concepts of history as reflected in Arabic historiographical writing in Ottoman Syria and Egypt (1517-1700) / Otfried Weintritt -- Cultural life in Mamluk households (late Ottoman period) / Nelly Hanna -- The residential districts of Cairo's elite in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries) / Andre Raymond -- Patterns of urban patronage in Cairo : a comparison between the Mamluk and the Ottoman periods / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- Notes on the early nazar al-khass / Donald P. Little -- Coptic festivals of the Nile : aberrations of the past? / Huda Lutfi -- Marriage in late eighteenth-century Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Literary offerings : a genre of courtly literature / P.M. Holt -- Rank-and-file Mamluks versus amirs : new norms in the Mamluk military institution / Amalia Levanoni -- Mamluk amirs and their families and households / Donald S. Richards -- Joseph's law--the careers and activities of Mamluk descendants before the Ottoman conquest of Egypt / Ulrich Haarman -- The re-emergence of the Mamluks following the Ottoman conquest / Michael Winter -- 'Mamluk households' and 'Mamluk factions' in Ottoman Egypt : a reconsideration / Jane Hathaway -- Personal loyalty and political power of the Mamluks in the eighteenth century / Thomas Phillipp -- The Mamluk beylicate of Egypt in the last decades before its destruction by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1811 / Daniel Crecelius -- Mamluk astronomy and the institution of the Muwaqqit / David A. King -- The Mamluks as Muslims : the military elite and the construction of Islam in medieval Egypt / Jonathan P. Berkey -- The late triumph of the Persian bow : critical voices on the Mamluk monopoly on weaponry / Ulrich Haarman -- Concepts of history as reflected in Arabic historiographical writing in Ottoman Syria and Egypt (1517-1700) / Otfried Weintritt -- Cultural life in Mamluk households (late Ottoman period) / Nelly Hanna -- The residential districts of Cairo's elite in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries) / Andre Raymond -- Patterns of urban patronage in Cairo : a comparison between the Mamluk and the Ottoman periods / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- Notes on the early nazar al-khass / Donald P. Little -- Coptic festivals of the Nile : aberrations of the past? / Huda Lutfi -- Marriage in late eighteenth-century Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot.