History and Society During the Mamluk Period

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"This volume is a collection of research essays submitted by fellows of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, an Advanced Center of Research in Mamluk Studies. It covers three themes, which correspond to the research agenda of the final three academic years of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg. These were : environmental history, material culture studies, and im/mobility. The aim of the contributions is to overcome the disciplinary boundaries of the field and to engage in scholarly debates in Ottoman Studies, European history, archaelogy and art history, and even the natural sciences."--Back cover.

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"The authors of this volume address a wide range of fascinating topics: medicine and non-Muslim physicians in Mamluk Cairo, the social order of 15th-century Damascus, official reports on natural disasters (maḥāḍir) as sources of Mamluk geography, folk literature, narrative analysis of ego-documents, the judiciary of Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Damascus, and the problems of imperial village planning. All contributions lead to a better and more sophisticated understanding of the Mamluk society. The contributions were produced at the Annemarie Schimmel-Kolleg "History and Society of the Mamluk Era" at Bonn University."--

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Other Editions

• History and Society During the Mamluk Period: Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Research College IIV&R unipress GmbH2016-01-01
• History and Society During the Mamluk PeriodV&R unipress GmbH2021-01-01