David Ayalon

Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom (eBook, PDF)

A Challenge to Medieval Society (1956)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This study of firearms analyzes the employment of such weaponry, dated more than 40 years after use in Europe, towards the close of the 1360s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136277252
• Artikelnr.: 38246772

Autorenporträt

David Ayalon Professor of the History of the Islamic Peoples at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Inhaltsangabe

The early use of firearms in the Mamluk kingdom; terms used for firearms and gunpowder in contemporary sources - why firearms were called naft
the mukhula and the midfa
the cannon and the manjaniq; the attitude of Mamluk military society toward the use of firearms - firearms in the last decades of Mamluk rule
the casting of cannon under al-Ghawri
the renewal of traditional military training and of furusiya exercises
the creation of a unit of arquebusiers
the black slaves as arquebusiers
the fifth tabaqa
Tumanbay's desperate effort
Ibn Zunbul on the Mamluk attitude toward firearms
other obstacles to the adoption of firearms
socio-psychological antagonism to firearms weighed against other factors
firearms as a decisive factor in shaping the destiny of Western Asia and Egypt; appendices.