The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition

Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century, 2

Stephan Conermann, Gül Şen, Stephan Conermann, Gül Şen

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9783847111528
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847011521
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: History

While the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk realm in 1516-17 doubtlessly changed the balance of political power in Egypt and Greater Syria, the changes must be seen as a wide-ranging transition process. The present collection of essays provides several case studies on the changing situation during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and explains how the reconfiguration of political power affected both Egypt and Greater Syria. With reference to the first volume (2017), this second volume continues the debate on key issues of the transition period with contributions by scholars from both Mamluk and Ottoman studies. By combining these perspectives, the authors provide a more comprehensive and nuanced picture of the process of transformation from Mamluk to Ottoman rule.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Stephan Conermann / Gül Şen: Preface
• Miri Shefer-Mossensohn: Obituary for Michael Winter (1934–2020)
• Introduction
• Linda T. Darling: From Border Province to Imperial Hub: The Geopolitical Transition of Syria from Mamluk to Ottoman Rule
• Political Culture
• Nasser Rabbat: The Paradox of Being Mamluk
• Jane Hathaway: The Kul Problem in Early Ottoman Egypt: Ottoman Reorganization Gone Awry
• Military
• Albrecht Fuess: Why Domenico Had to Die and Black Slaves Wore Red Uniforms: Military Technology and Its Decisive Role in the 1517 Ottoman Conquest of Egypt
• Charles Wilkins: Ottoman Elite Recruitment and the Case of Janbulad Bek b. Qasim (d. ca. 1575)
• Violence
• Carl F. Petry: Violence as Tactic: Rioting by Mamluk Soldiers in the Late Circassian Period
• Timothy J. Fitzgerald: Shedding Blood Justly: Perceptions of Violence in Early Ottoman Syria
• Finances
• Yehoshua Frenkel: The Waqf System During the Last Decades of Mamluk Rule
• Wakako Kumakura: The Tax Survey Record of the First Year of Ottoman Rule in Egypt
• Provincial Administration
• Reuven Amitai: Late Mamluk Gaza: Aspects of Economy, Security and Administration on the Eve of Ottoman Rule
• Bethany J. Walker: The Changing Face of Agricultural ‘Estates’ in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Palestine: the Commercializa ion of Khirbet Beit Mazmīl
• Gül Şen: The Political Administration of the Districts of Greater Syria in the Sixteenth Century
• Intellectual Changes
• Anna Kollatz: Intellectual Changes Triggered by Transition? The Case of Ibn Iyās and Ibn Ṭūlūn
• Christian Mauder: Ottomanization before the Conquest? Mamluk-Ottoman Religious and Cultural Entanglements in the Courtly Salons of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī and Post-conquest Gatherings
• Toru Miura: Socio-Political Changes among the ʿUlamaʾ in Syria and Egypt in the Sixteenth Century
• Adam Sabra: Sufism and the Practice of Politics in Early Ottoman Egypt
• Notes on Editors and Contributers
• Index
• Leere Seite