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Mamluks and Ottomans : studies in honour of Michael Winter / edited by David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon.

Contributor(s): Winter, Michael, 1934- | Wasserstein, David | Ayalon, Ami, 1945- | Winter, Michael, 1934-Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ; 5.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. Description: viii, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 041537278X (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780415372787 (hbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Winter, Michael, 1934- -- Bibliography | Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517 | Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882 | Islamic Empire -- History -- 1258-1517 | Middle East -- History -- 1517-Genre/Form: History | Aufsatzsammlung.DDC classification: 909/.0976701 LOC classification: DT96 | .M2154 2006
Contents:
Sufism and sanctity : the genesis of the wali Allah in Mamluk Jerusalem and Hebron / Daphna Ephrat -- The prince who favored the desert : fragmentary biography of al-Nasir Ahmad (d. 745/1344) / Joseph Drory -- Al-Nabi Musa : an Ottoman festival (mawsim) resurrected? / Amnon Cohen -- Some remarks on the inscription of Baybars at Maqam Nabi Musa / Reuven Amitai -- Sign of the times : reusing the past in Baybars's architecture in Palestine / Hanna Taragan -- A fourteenth-century Jerusalem court record of a divorce hearing : a case study / Donald P. Little -- The hoax of the miraculous speaking wall : criminal investigation in Mamluk Cairo / Carl F. Petry -- Awlad al-nas in the Mamluk army during the Bahri period / Amalia Levanoni -- Popular Sufi sermons in late Mamluk Egypt / Boaz Shoshan -- Physicians in Mamluk and Ottoman courts / Miri Shefer -- Evliya Çelebi on imarets / Amy Singer -- Great fire in the metropolis : the case of the Istanbul conflagration of 1569 and its description by Marcantonio Barbaro / Minna Rozen and Benjamin Arbel -- Futuh-i Haramayn : sixteenth-century illustrations of the Hajj route / Rachel Milstein -- The forgotten province : a prelude to the Ottoman era in Yemen / Jane Hathaway -- Islam in the Sudan under the Funj and the Ottomans / Gabriel Warburg -- Observations on some religious institutions in Damiette and Faraskur in the eighteenth century / Daniel Crecelius -- The expropriation of the Pasha's peasants / Ursula Wokoeck.
Review: "Mamluks and Ottomans, dedicated to Michael Winter, aims to highlight aspects of variety and continuity in the history of the Middle East between the thirteenth and the eighteenth centuries CE." "The studies in this book look at the area from Istanbul through Syria and Palestine to Arabia, Yemen and Sudan. They demonstrate the great wealth of materials available, in a wide variety of languages, from archives and manuscripts, police records and divorce documents, through inscriptions and buildings to art works of every kind."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Publications of Michael Winter"--p. [252]-254.

Sufism and sanctity : the genesis of the wali Allah in Mamluk Jerusalem and Hebron / Daphna Ephrat -- The prince who favored the desert : fragmentary biography of al-Nasir Ahmad (d. 745/1344) / Joseph Drory -- Al-Nabi Musa : an Ottoman festival (mawsim) resurrected? / Amnon Cohen -- Some remarks on the inscription of Baybars at Maqam Nabi Musa / Reuven Amitai -- Sign of the times : reusing the past in Baybars's architecture in Palestine / Hanna Taragan -- A fourteenth-century Jerusalem court record of a divorce hearing : a case study / Donald P. Little -- The hoax of the miraculous speaking wall : criminal investigation in Mamluk Cairo / Carl F. Petry -- Awlad al-nas in the Mamluk army during the Bahri period / Amalia Levanoni -- Popular Sufi sermons in late Mamluk Egypt / Boaz Shoshan -- Physicians in Mamluk and Ottoman courts / Miri Shefer -- Evliya Çelebi on imarets / Amy Singer -- Great fire in the metropolis : the case of the Istanbul conflagration of 1569 and its description by Marcantonio Barbaro / Minna Rozen and Benjamin Arbel -- Futuh-i Haramayn : sixteenth-century illustrations of the Hajj route / Rachel Milstein -- The forgotten province : a prelude to the Ottoman era in Yemen / Jane Hathaway -- Islam in the Sudan under the Funj and the Ottomans / Gabriel Warburg -- Observations on some religious institutions in Damiette and Faraskur in the eighteenth century / Daniel Crecelius -- The expropriation of the Pasha's peasants / Ursula Wokoeck.

"Mamluks and Ottomans, dedicated to Michael Winter, aims to highlight aspects of variety and continuity in the history of the Middle East between the thirteenth and the eighteenth centuries CE." "The studies in this book look at the area from Istanbul through Syria and Palestine to Arabia, Yemen and Sudan. They demonstrate the great wealth of materials available, in a wide variety of languages, from archives and manuscripts, police records and divorce documents, through inscriptions and buildings to art works of every kind."--Jacket.