Sultan Baybars Research Articles

A Treatise on the Imamate Dedicated to Sultan Baybars I

The article provides an analysis of the contents of MS Or 579 of the Bodleian Library, which is a short treatise (risāla) on the imamate. The author, apparently a member of the religious class with strong Ṣūfī leanings, is not named. The ruler for whose service (li-ḫidma) the treatise was composed is addressed with a long series of flowery epithets and titles on the basis of which he could be identified as the Baḥrī Mamlūk sultan Baybars aṣ-Ṣāliḥī (r. 658-676/1260-1277). The special interest of the risāla lies in the date of its composition during the early phase of the Mamlūk sultanate.

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices

The Lion of Egypt. Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the thirteenth century. By Peter Thorau, translated by P. M. Holt. pp. xiii, 321, 5 maps. London and New York, Longman, 1992. £13–50.

The Lion of Egypt. Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the thirteenth century. By Peter Thorau, translated by P. M. Holt. pp. xiii, 321, 5 maps. London and New York, Longman, 1992. £13–50. - Volume 4 Issue 1

The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century.

The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century.

The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the near East in the Thirteenth Century

The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the near East in the Thirteenth Century

The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century

The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century

Peter Thorau: The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the thirteenth century. Transl. by P. M. Holt. xiii, 321 pp. London and New York: Longman, 1992. £13.50.

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The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century

The political background of Baybar's youth Baybar's origins and rise to power Baybars as Sultan. Appendices: Mongol influences on the Mamluk state Baybar's embassies to Berke Khan the Khutba for Berke Khan an alleged expedition against Antioch in 665/1266 the capture of Crac des Chevaliers the Battle of Albistan the cause of Baybar's death.

REVIEWS

REVIEWS PETER THORAU, The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century, translated by P. M. Holt, Longman, London and New York 1992. Pp. xiii + 321. Price: £ 13.50 paperback. ISBN: 0-582-06823-1. DONALD P. LITTLE DONALD P. LITTLE MCGILL UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, AUTUMN 1993, Pages 340–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/XXXVIII.2.340 Published: 01 October 1993

A Novel Aspect of Byzantine Art of the Eighth Century

OF the famous mosaic ornaments in the mosque of the Omayyads, of which the historians1 of the great Mohammedan epoch have left descriptions charged with admiration, only a few fragments more or less worn by time were known to us before the completion of our labors, some ornaments which recalled the well-known mosaics of Ravenna, of Salonica, or of Jerusalem, still adorned the intrados of one portico, and, high on the facade of the transept, some scarcely discernible traces of a design showed portions of compositions related to those mosaics which are to be seen in Damascus itself, in the tomb of the Sultan Baybars.

Art. V.—Arabic Inscriptions in Egypt

A public mosque and the tomb of the founder represent at the present day what was once a khanka, or, as it may be described, a conventual establishment for the use of Ṣũfis, erected at Cairo in the early years of the fourteenth century, by Sultan Baybars, second of the name. An earlier foundation of the same character, the first seen in Egypt, owed its existence to Saladin, who adapted to his purpose a house or mansion built in the days of the Fatimites, and known as the house of Sa'īd as-Su'ada, a designation which the existing mosque bears to the present day. Both foundations have for a long period ceased to serve the purposes for which they were erected, and, as has likewise happened to the numerous madāris or colleges founded by the Egyptian Sultans and nobles, their original destination is w ll-nigh forgotten. They are now simply classed among the public mosques of Cairo, a change from their original purpose largely due to their impoverishment, and not unlike that which has befallen many old abbey churches in England.