Carl F. Petry (Illinois Northwestern University)

The Mamluk Sultanate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offering insights into the unique outlook of slave soldiers who created the Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea from 1250 to 1517, this is an accessible and comprehensive survey of the realm for undergraduate students and general readers interested in pre-modern history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781108456999
• ISBN-10: 1108456995
• Artikelnr.: 62892616

Autorenporträt

Carl F. Petry is the Hamad Ibn Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Middle East Studies and Professor of HIstory at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages (1982), Twilight of Majesty: The Reigns of al-Ashraf Qaytbay and Qansuh al-Ghawri in Egypt (1993), Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power (1994), The Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society: Narratives from Cairo and Damascus under the Mamluks (2012) and is the Editor of The Cambridge History of Egypt: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 (1998). His research has been supported by the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Synopsis of events
2. Ethos of the 'slave-soldiers' regime
3. The mamluk sultanate from a global perspective
4. Vocational classes: Bureaucrats, magistrates, scholastics, clerics
5. The political economy
contexts of innovation
6. The cultural legacy
patronage, audience, genres, historiography
7. The rural environment, gender issues, minority communities, sufi practice
Reflections
Bibliography
Index.