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History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250-1517)

Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Research College I. Edited by Stephan Conermann.

The authors of this volume discuss a wide range of issues: medicine and non-muslim doctors in Mamluk Cairo, social order in 15th-century Damascus, official reports of natural disasters as sources for Mamluk geography, folk literature, the narrative analysis of ego-documents, the legal system in Damascus during the late Mamluk and early Osman period, and the problems posed by urban planning drawn up at the centre of the empire. All the essays contribute to a better, more differentiated understanding of the Mamluk era. The conributions originated in the Annemarie Schimmel Lecture Series on the History and Society of the Mamluk Era at the University of Bonn. It is the aim of the lecture series to mark new directions in Mamluk research through international and interdisciplinary projects. In this volume, fellows of the first two cohorts present the results of their research. - Contents: Yehoshua Frenkel: Al-Biqac'i's Naval War-Report. - Yehoshua Frenkel: "Volksroman" under the Mamluks: The Case of the Tamîm ad-Dârî Popular "Sîra". - Yehoshua Frenkel: Mapping the Maniluk Sultanate. - Thomas Herzog: Social milieus and worldviews in Mamluk "adab"-encyclopedias: The example of poverty and wealth. - Paulina l.ewicka: Medicine for Muslims? Islamic Theologians, Non-Muslim Physicians and the Medical Culture of the Mamluk Near East. - Linda S. Northrup: Al-Bîmâristân al-Mansûrî-Explorations: The Interface Between Medicine, Politics and Culture in Early Mamluk Egypt. - Yossef Rapoport: New Directions in the Social History of the Mamluk Era. - Bethany J. Walker: Planned Villages and Rural Resilience on the Mamluk Frontier: A Preliminary Report on the 2013 Excavation Season at Tall Hisban. - Michael Winter: The judiciary of late Mamluk and early Ottoman Damascus: The administrative, social and cultural transformation of the system. - Torsten Wollina: What is a City? Perceptions of Architectural and Social Order in 15th-Century Damascus. 229 Seiten mit 17 Abb. und Karten, gebunden (Mamluk Studies; Vol. 5/V&R unipress/Bonn University Press 2014) leichte Lagerspuren, Mängelexemplarstempel auf Schnitt/unused, minor shelfwear, remainder mark stamp on edge