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