Everything is on the Move

The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks

Stephan Conermann

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9783847102748
• eBook ISBN: 9783847002741
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

In this volume, we try to understand the "Mamluk Empire" not as a confined space but as a region where several nodes of different networks existed side-by-side and at the same time. In our opinion, these networks constitute to a great extent the core of the so-called Mamluk society; they form the basis of the social order. Following, in part, concepts refined in the New Area Studies, recent reflections about the phenomenon of the "Empire – State", trajectories in today's Global History, and the spatial turn in modern historiography, we intend to identify a number of physical and cognitive networks with one or more nodes in Mamluk-controlled territories. In addition to this, one of the most important analytical questions would be to define the role of these networks in Mamluk society.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Body
• Stephan Conermann (Bonn): Networks and Nodes in Mamluk Times: some introductory remarks
• Global Context
• Georg Christ (Manchester): Beyond the Network – Connectors of Networks: Venetian Agents in Cairo and Venetian News Management
• Yehoshua Frenkel (Haifa): The Mamluks among the Nations: A Medieval Sultanate in its Global Context
• Networks
• Henning Sievert (Bonn/Zürich): Family, friend or foe? Factions, households and interpersonal relations in Mamluk Egypt and Syria
• Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz): Networks of Greek Orthodox Monks and Clerics between Byzantium and Mamluk Syria and Egypt
• Michael Winter (Tel Aviv): Sufism in the Mamluk Empire (and in early Ottoman Egypt and Syria) as a focus for religious, intellectual and social networks
• Carl F. Petry (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL): “Travel Patterns of Medieval Notables in the Near East” Reconsidered: contrasting trajectories, interconnected networks
• Miriam Kühn (Berlin): “Stars, they come and go, […] and all you see is glory” – minbars as Emblems of Political Power in Intra-Mamlūk Strife
• Ego-Networks
• Thomas Bauer (Münster): How to Create a Network: Zaynaddīn al-Āṯārī and his Muqarriẓūn
• Mohammad Gharaibeh (Bonn): Brokerage and Interpersonal Relationships in Scholarly Networks. Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī and His Ea ly Academic Career
• Mental Networks: Travelling Concepts–Actor-Network-Theory
• Albrecht Fuess (Marburg): Ottoman Ġazwah – Mamluk Ǧihād. Two Arms on the Same Body?
• Torsten Wollina (Beirut): News and Rumor – local sources of knowledge about the world
• Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee): Networks, Processions, and the Disruptive Display of Religion
• Bethany J. Walker (Bonn): Mobility and Migration in Mamluk Syria: The Dynamism of Villagers `on the Move'
• Authors