Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honour of Michael Winter

ISBN-13: 9780415595032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 258 str.

David J Wasserstein;Ami Ayalon;?Abar

Opis

Focusing on Near Eastern history in Mamluk and Ottoman times, this book dedicated to Michael Winter, stresses elements of variety and continuity in the history of the Near East between the 13th and 18th centuries.

Spis treści

1. Sufism and Sanctity: The Genesis of the Wali Allah in Mamluk Jerusalem and Hebron  2. The Prince who Favored the Desert: Fragmentary Biography of Al-Nasir Ahmad (d. 745/1344)  3. Al-Nabi Musa - An Ottoman Festival (Mawsim) Resurrected?  4. Some Remarks on the Inscription of Baybars at Maqam Nabi Musa  5. Sign of the Times: Reusing the Past in Baybars’s Architecture in Palestine  6. A Fourteenth Century Jerusalem Court Record of a Divorce Hearing: A Case Study  7. The Hoax of the Miraculous Speaking Wall: Criminal Investigation in Mamluk Cairo  8. Awlad Al-Nas in the Mamluk Army During the Bahri Period  9. Popular Sufi Sermons in Late Mamluk Egypt  10. Physicians in Mamluk and Ottoman Courts  11. Evliya Çelebi on ‘Imarets'  12. Great Fire in the Metropolis: The Case of the Istanbul Conflagration of 1569 and its Description by Marcantonio Barbaro  13. Sixteenth Century Illustrations of the Hajj Route 14. The Forgotten Province: A Prelude to the Ottoman Era in Yemen  15. Islam in the Sudan under the Funj and the Ottomans  16. Observations on some Religious Institutions in Damiette and Faraskur in the Eighteenth Century  17. The Expropriation of the Pasha’s Peasants

O autorze

 

David J. Wasserstein is professor of history and of Jewish studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Party-Kings (Princeton, 1985) and The Caliohate in the West (Oxford, 1993), and numerous articles on topics in medieval Islamic and Jewish History.

Ami Ayalon is a professor of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University, whose primary academic interest is in the modern social and cultural history of Arab societies.