The New Mamluks

Author : Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628446
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Mamluks written by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amira el-Azhary Sonbol has produced an analytical history of Egypt from the time before Muhammad Ali to the present day. Using local idioms and terms such as khassa and 'amma, iltazim and fa'iz, she has developed a methodology that is more meaningful because it ties events of the eighteenth century to those of the twentieth. The author explores the division that has existed in modern Egyptian society between two groups: the khassa, a ruling elite that tried to impose a hegemonic culture that reflected and encouraged its own economic interests, and the 'amma, the masses who clung to their heritage and customs in an attempt to acquire a share of the wealth. Sonbol discusses today's Islamic movement in Egypt as a revolution correcting the duality of culture that was brought about by historical events like colonialism and the importation of exogenous ideologies. She suggests a different way of looking at culture and the necessity of seeing cultural struggle as a method for studying the historical process that goes beyond the political and economical.

Author : Carl F. Petry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471048
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mamluk Sultanate written by Carl F. Petry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and accessible survey of the Mamluk Sultanate which positions the realm within the development of comparative political systems from a global perspective.

Author : Thomas Philipp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521591157
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society written by Thomas Philipp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, distinguished scholars provide an accessible introduction to the structure of political power under the Mamluks and its economic foundations.

Author : Nasser Rabbat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786723867
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mamluk History through Architecture written by Nasser Rabbat and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most enduring testament to the Mamluk Sultanate is its architecture. Not only do Mamluk buildings embody one of the most outstanding medieval architectural traditions, Mamluk architecture is actually a key to the social history of the period. Analysing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication and documentation as well as a cultural index, "Mamluk History Through Architecture" shows how the buildings mirror the complex - and historically unique - military, political, social and financial structures of Mamluk society. With this original and authoritative study, Nasser Rabbat offers an innovative approach to the history of the Mamluks - through readings of the spectacular architecture of the period. Drawing on examples from throughout both Egypt and Syria, from the Citadel and Al-Azhar Mosque of Cairo to the Mausoleum of al-Zahir Baybars in Damascus, Rabbat demonstrates how Mamluk architecture served to reinforce visually the spirit of the counter-Crusade, when the Muslim world rebounded from the setbacks of the First Crusade. Both holistically and in case studies, Rabbat demonstrates how history is inscribed into and reflected by a culture's artefacts. This is a groundbreaking work in the study of architecture and social history in the Middle East and beyond.

Author : David J Wasserstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136579249
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mamluks and Ottomans written by David J Wasserstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, an area of study which has traditionally attracted little attention from Islamists. Ranging over the period from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, the articles in this book look at the area from Istanbul down through Syria and Palestine to Arabia, the Yemen and the Sudan. The articles demonstrate the great wealth of the materials available, in a wide variety of languages, from archival documents to manuscripts and art works, as well as inscriptions and buildings, police records and divorce documentation. The topics covered are equally as varied and include Dufism, the festival of Nabi Musa, military organisations, doctors, and charity to name but a few.

Author : Doris Abouseif
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cairo of the Mamluks written by Doris Abouseif and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Mamluk architecture spans three centuries and examines the monuments of the Mamluks in their social, political and urban context, during the period of their rule (1250-1517). This book displays the multiple facets of Mamluk patronage, and also provides a succinct discussion of the sixty key monuments built in Cairo by the Mamluk sultans. A richly illustrated volume with color photographs, plans and isometric drawings, this will be an essential reference work for scholars and students of the art and architecture of the Islamic world as well as art historians and historians of late medieval Islamic history.

Author : Esin Atıl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance of Islam written by Esin Atıl and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The new Cambridge modern history written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1957 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. R. Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521045414
Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 1, The Renaissance, 1493-1520 written by G. R. Potter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1957-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a preface written for the paperback edition, Professor Hay examines some of the changes in Renaissance scholarship since the first publication of this volume in 1957. Successive chapters examine the social and economic structure of a continent about to establish trade and colonies in the New World, the intellectual and artistic movements which made up the Renaissance, the position of the Church on the eve of the Reformation, the political inheritance of the Middle Ages, with its rising nation states, and the growth of the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Cihan Yuksel Muslu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735802
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ottomans and the Mamluks written by Cihan Yuksel Muslu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks - historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and Syria. Cihan Yüksel Muslu traces the intertwined stories of these two dominant Sunni Muslim empires of the early modern world, setting out to question the view that Muslim rulers were historically concerned above all with the idea of Jihad against non-Muslim entities. Through analysis of the diplomatic and military engagements around the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, Muslu traces the interactions of these Islamic super-powers and their attitudes towards the wider world. This is the first detailed study of one of the most important political and cultural relationships in early-modern Islamic history.