Mamluk Studies
Open Access Zweitveröffentlichungen der Reihe Mamluk Studies
Herausgeber der Reihe: Stephan Conermann und Bethany Joelle Walker
»Mamluk Studies« is the first series that is exclusively dedicated to the history, culture and society of the Mamluk Era (1250–1517). It contains source editions, monographs, collections of articles, and conference proceedings in English, French, and German. The Mamluk Empire is a historically unique model of a society. A predominantly Arabic population was dominated by a purely Turkish-born elite of manumitted military slaves who sought to regenerate themselves continuously through a self-imposed fiat. The only person who could become a Mamluk was a Turk who had been born free outside the Islamic territories as a non-Muslim, then enslaved, brought to Egypt, converted to Islam, freed, and finally, trained as a warrior. Only those who met these prerequisites were members of the ruling stratum with all the concomitant political, military, and economic advantages. Patrons and companions provided the individual, rootless Mamluk with a place and support in society. The flipside of this esprit de corps was intra-Mamluk rivalry between the various families, a resulting lack of internal cohesion of the Mamluk ruling caste, and in particular, the loss of power upon the deposition or death of a protector. But despite these pre-programmed tensions inherent to the system, the model of the Mamluk »single-generation military aristocracy« seems to have had a considerable stabilizing effect. At least, it is safe to assume that the longevity of Mamluk rule over the autochthonous clientage of Egypt and Syria is also, or even primarily, a result of the Mamluk principle of constant regeneration.
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Browsing through the Sultan’s Bookshelves: Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of the Mamluk Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516)
(2024)Starting from 135 manuscripts that were once part of the library of the late Mamluk sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516), this book challenges the dominant narrative of a "post-court era", in which courts were increasingly ... -
Studies on the History and Culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)
(2021)The general field of study of this volume is the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). It contains the proceedings of the First German-Japanese Workshop held at the Toyo Bunko in Tokyo, Japan. The authors ... -
Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200–1500
(2020)Slavery touched many aspects of Mamluk society. This volume focuses on the role of slaves within the family, from birth to purchase, liberation, and death. It investigates domestic slavery in Syrian and Egyptian society ... -
Mamlukische Minbare: Islamische Predigtkanzeln in Ägypten, Syrien, Libanon, Israel und den Palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten zwischen 1250 und 1517
(2019)In diesem Band wird eine umfangreiche und beispiellose Erfassung, Dokumentation und Klassifikation erhaltener mamlukischer Minbare in Ägypten, Syrien, dem Libanon, Israel und den Palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten vorgelegt. ... -
Mamluk historiography revisited - narratological perspectives
(2018)This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of ‘factuality’ versus ‘fictivity’. None of the authors set out to write ‘fiction’; nor would their ... -
Lisān al-ḥukkām fī maˁrifat al-aḥkām. Teil 1 und Ġāyat al-marām fī tatimmat lisān al-ḥukkām. Teil 2
(2017)»Lisan al-ḥukkam fi maˁrifat al-aḥkam« ist das einzige Werk von Lisan ad-Din Abu’l-Walid Aḥmad b. aš-Šiḥna al-Ḫalabi al-Ḫanafi, der im Jahre 862/1458 zum Oberkadi der Ḫanafiten in Aleppo ernannt wurde. In der Ausübung des ... -
at-Tarāǧim al-ǧalīla al-ǧaliyya wa-l-ašyāḫ al-ʿāliya al-ʿaliyya / Part1 und Part 2
(2017)Ibn Aybak ad-Dumyaṭī was an historian specialized in recording the scholarly lives of the learned men of his generation. His most important work of this genre was at-Tarāǧim al-ǧalīla al-ǧaliyya wa-l-ašyāḫ al-ʿāliya ... -
Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period: Jews in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates (1171–1517)
(2017)This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts ... -
Ǧāmiʿ al-mustanadāt: Eine Edition der fünf Kaufverträge und der Waqf-Urkunde des Emirs Faḫr ad-Dīn Abū ʿAmr ʿUṯmān b. Uġulbak al-Ḥalabī
(2014)Der mamlūkisch-aleppinische Emir Faḫr ad-Dīn Abū ʿAmr ʿUṯmān b. Uġulbak war das mächtigste und einflussreichste Mitglied seiner Familie. Er prägte seinen Geburtsort Aleppo in der damaligen Zeit durch sein soziales und ... -
Al- Qaul al-mūʿab fī l-qaḍāʾ bi l-mūǧab
(2014)Eine Frau stiftet ein Haus zugunsten ihres Sohnes und dessen Nachkommen und gibt dafür einen iqrār ab. Sie erklärt darin, dass es sich in ihrer Hand und in ihrem Eigentum befinde und dass sie sich die Aufsicht darüber ... -
Zwanzig Jahre Alltag: Lebens-, Welt- und Selbstbild im Journal des Aḥmad Ibn Ṭawqs
(2014)Aḥmad Ibn Ṭawqs (1443–1510) Taʿlīq ist eines von wenigen arabischen Tagebüchern, die aus einer 1000 Jahre währenden Tradition erhalten sind. Seit der Veröffentlichung des ersten Bandes im Jahr 2000 hat es sich zu einem ...
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