The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition

Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bil?d al-Sh?m in the Sixteenth Century

Stephan Conermann, Gül Şen, Stephan Conermann, Gül Şen

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9783847106371
• eBook ISBN: 9783847006374
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

The essays discuss continuity and change in Bil?d al Sh?m (Greater Syria) during the sixteenth century, examining to what extent Egypt and Greater Syria were affected by the transition from Mamluk to Ottoman rule. This is explored in a variety of areas: diplomatic relations, histories and historiography, fiscal and agricultural administration, symbolic orders, urban developments, local perspectives and material culture. In order to rethink the sixteenth century from a transitional perspective and thus overcome the conventional dynasty-centered fields of research Mamlukists and Ottomanists have been brought together, shedding light on the remarkable sixteenth century, so decisive for the formation of early modern Muslim empires.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Notes from the Editors
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen: Introduction: A Transitional Point of View
• Michael Winter: Egypt and Syria in the Sixteenth Century
• Egypt
• Paulina B. Lewicka: Challenges of Daily Life in Early-Ottoman Cairo: a Learned Sufi’s Perspective. Preliminary Remarks on al-Munāwī’s Memorandum on Decent Behavior
• Wakako Kumakura: The Early Ottoman Rural Government System and Its Development in Terms of Water Administration
• Claudia Römer: An Attempt at Reconstructing the Ottoman Correspondence during Grand Vizier İbrāhīm Paşa’s 1525 Mission to Egyp
• Michael Winter: The Conquest of Syria and Egypt by Sultan Selim I, According to Evliyâ Çelebi
• Syria
• Linda T. Darling: Investigating the Fiscal Administration of the Arab Provinces after the Ottoman Conquest of 1516
• Alev Masarwa: Performing the Occasion: The Chronograms of Māmayya ar-Rūmī (930–985 or 987/1534–1577 or 1579)
• Toru Miura: Transition of the ʿUlamaʾ Families in Sixteenth Century Damascus
• Torsten Wollina: Sultan Selīm in Damascus: The Ottoman Appropriation of a Mamluk Metropolis (922–924/1516–1518)
• Mamluks-Ottomans
• Timothy J. Fitzgerald: Rituals of Possession, Methods of Control, and the Monopoly of Violence: The Ottoman Conquest of Aleppo in Comparative Perspective
• Yehoshua Frenkel: The Ottomans and the Mamlūks through the Eyes of Arab Travelers (in 16th–17th Centuries)
• Cihan Yüksel Muslu: “Nomadic” Borders of Ottoman Provinces during the Mamluk-Ottoman Imperial Transition
• Gül Şen: Ottoman Servant, Mamluk Rebel? Narrative Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Historiography – the Example of Jānbirdī al-Ghazālī’s Downfall
• Bethany J. Walker: Early Ottoman/Late Islamic I/post-Mamluk: What are the Archaeological Traces of the 16th Century in Syria?”
• Notes on Contributors
• Index