Mamlukica

Studies on the History and Society of the Mamluk Period / Studien zu Geschichte und Gesellschaft der Mamlukenzeit

Stephan Conermann

• Verlag: V&R Unipress
• Jahr: 2013
• ISBN drucken:
  9783847101116
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783847001119
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Geschichte
• Thema: Europäische Geschichte des Mittelalters

Once a person starts to study the 250-some years of the Mamluk Era in Egypt and Syria (1250–1517), one characteristic of that period stands out immediately – the very unusual polarization of its society. A predominantly Arabic population was dominated by a purely Turkish-born elite of manu-mitted military slaves who sought to regenerate themselves continuously through a self-imposed fiat. The only person who could become a Mamluk was a Turk who had been born free outside the Islamic territories as a non-Muslim, then enslaved, brought to Egypt as a slave, converted to Islam, freed, and finally, trained as a warrior. Only those who met these prerequisites were members of the ruling stratum with all the concomitant political, military, and economic advantages. On this historically unique model of a society, Stephan Conermann has published a series of seminal articles. In this edited volume the reader gets an excellent introduction to some of the central issues of the ongoing research on the Mamluk history and society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Es boomt! Die Mamlukenforschung (1992–2002)
• Awlād al-Nās as Founders of Pious Endowments: The Waqfīyah of Yaḥyá ibn Ṭūghān al-Ḥasanī of the Year 870/1465
• Anmerkungen zu einer mamlukischen waqf-Urkunde aus dem 9./15. Jahrhundert
• Ibn Ağās (st. 881/1476) „Taʾrīḫ al-Amīr Yabak aẓ-Ẓāhirī“ – Biographie, Autobiographie, Tagebuch oder Chronik?
• Ibn Ṭūlūn (d. 955/1548): Life and Works
• Some Remarks on Ibn Ṭawq’s (d. 915/1509) Journal Al-Taʿlīq, vol. 1 (885/1480 to 890/1485)
• Tankiz ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusāmī al-Nāṣirī (d. 740/1340) as Seen by His Contemporary al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363)
• Lebensspender, Stätte der Erinnerung, Gedächtnisort: Der Nil während der Mamlukenzeit (1250–1517)
• Volk, Ethnie oder Stamm? Die Kurden aus mamlukischer Sicht
• Liebe im mittelalterlichen Islam – „romantisch“, intellektuell oder heilig?
• Herrscherwechsel als höfische Machtprobe. Das Beispiel der Mamluken in Ägypten und Syrien (1250–1517)
• Muḥammad zu Pferde im Kampf: Ein Beispiel für das Genre der Furūsiyya an-nabawiyya während der Mamlukenzeit (1250–1517)
• Reinheitsvorstellungen im Islam