Mustafa Banister

Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517 (eBook, ePUB)

Out of the Shadows

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public and private lives of the 18 men invested as caliphs during the period of 'Mamluk' rule in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) and reveals a nuanced understanding of the Abbasid Caliphate according to elite members of Syro-Egyptian society. In doing so, he addresses the function of the caliph and his office amidst the breakdown and recreation of each new socio-political order of the sultanate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474453387
• Artikelnr.: 72412449

Autorenporträt

Mustafa Banister is a post-doctoral researcher in Arabic Historiography at Ghent University, Belgium. He obtained a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015 and then spent several years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bonn and Ghent University. Banister has published articles in the Mamluk Studies Review and a chapter in Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam edited by Sebastian Günther (Brill, 2020). His current research focuses on the historiographical writing of the Syro-Egyptian litterateur A¿mad ibn 'Arabshah (d. 1450).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Maps and Genealogical Tables
Introduction
Part I: A History of the Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo
1. The Origins and Establishment of the Abbasid Caliphs in Cairo
(659-701/1261-1302)
2. The Qalawunids and the Caliphate (701-63/1301-63)
3. Flirtations with Power and Political Intrigue (763-815/1362-1412)
4. Containing and Maintaining the Caliphate (815-903/1412-1497)
5. The Last Abbasids of Cairo (903-22/1497-1517)
Part II: Legal, Historiographical, and Chancery Dimensions of the Abbasid
Caliphate of Cairo
6. Normative Perspectives on the Caliphate of Cairo: Jurisprudential,
Advice, and Courtly Literature
7. The Cairo Caliphate in Medieval Arabic Historiographical Literature
8. Caliphal Investiture Documents and the Ideality of a Cairo Caliphate
9. Beyond the Throne of the Caliphate: Analyzing Caliphal Documents
Conclusion
10. Re-constructing a Nuanced Caliphate
Works Cited
Index