TY  - BOOK
AU  - Philipp,Thomas
AU  - Haarmann,Ulrich
TI  - The Mamluks in Egyptian politics and society
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
AV  - DT96 .M2156 2006
PY  - 2006///,
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mamelukes
KW  - Mamelouks
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - 1250-1517
KW  - 1517-1882
KW  - Egypte
KW  - Histoire
N1  - 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
ER  -