The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society

Abstract

Preface .. ix List of Abbreviations .. xi List of Illustrations .. xiii Introduction .. xv Part One: The Formative Stage of the Mamluk Sultanate 1. Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars's Red Mosque at Safed .. 3 Hanna Taragan 2. The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties .. 21 Reuven Amita i Part Two: Mamluk Archival Evidence 3. Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Oaram al-Sharif in Jerusalem .. 45 Donald Richards 4. The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place .. 59 Frederic Bauden Part Three: Continuity and Change in the Mamluk Army 5. The Sultan's Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism? .. 79 Amalia Levanoni 6. Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered .. 117 Robert Irwin Part Four: Provincial Administration in Mamluk Palestine 7. The Governance of Jerusalem under Qaytbay .. 143 Donald Little 8. Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period .. 163 Joseph Drory Part Five: Ibn Taymiyya and Mamluk Society 9. Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths .. 191 Yossef Rapoport Part Six: Mamluk Economy 10. The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period .. 221 Warren Schultz 11. The mutasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution .. 245 Jonathan Berkey 12. The Estate of al-Khuwand Fatima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor .. 277 Carl Petry Part Seven: The Mamluks in Syria 13. Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study .. 297 Michael Winter 14. The Last Mamluk Household .. 317 Thomas Philipp 15. Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of Socio-cultural Forces .. 339 Nimrod Luz Part Eight: The Mamluks in Ottoman Egypt 16. The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century .. 359 Andre Raymond 17. Problems of 'Abd al-Raman Katkhuda's Leadership of the Qazdughli Faction .. 373 Daniel Crecelius 18. Mamluk revivals and Mamluk Nostalgia in Ottoman Egypt .. 387 Jane Hathaway 19. Bedouin and Mamluks in Egypt-Co-existence in a State of Duality .. 407 Reuven Aharoni Index .. 435