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Mamluk Studies Review Volume XVII (2013) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Obituary: David C. Reisman (1969–2011) by Ahmed H. al-Rahim
“Ayna hādhā min al-Mutanabbī!” Toward an Aesthetics of Mamluk Literature by Thomas Bauer
Woven Together as Though Randomly Strung: Variation in Collections of Naevi Poetry Compiled by al-Nuwayrī and al-Sarī al-Raffāʾ by Adam Talib
The Medieval Islamic Literary World-System: The Lexicographic Turn by Muhsin J. al-Musawi
On Mamluk Anthologies Again: The Case of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Waṭwāṭ and His Ghurar al-Khaṣāʾiṣ al-Wāḍihah wa-ʿUrar al-Naqāʾiḍ al-Qābiḥah by Antonella Ghersetti
Composition and Worldview of some Bourgeois and Petit-Bourgeois Mamluk Adab-Encylopedias by Thomas Herzog
“Recalling You, My Lord”: ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūnīyah on Dhikr by Th. Emil Homerin
Insult, Fury, and Frustration: The Martyrological Narrative of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah’s Al-Kāfiyah al-Shāfiyah by Livnat Holtzman
Notes on the Literature of Sufi Prayer Commentaries by Richard McGregor
The Drug Zajals in Ibrāhīm al-Miʿmār’s Dīwān by Hakan Özkan
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XVI (2012) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
The Dhimmi’s Question on Predetermination and the Ulama’s Six Responses: The Dynamics of Composing Polemical Didactic Poems in Mamluk Cairo and Damascus by Livnat Holtzman
Mamluks and Their Relatives in the Period of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517) by Koby Yosef
Royal Justice and Religious Law: Siyasah and Shari'ah under the Mamluks by Yossef Rapoport
Khubz as Iqta' in Four Authors from the Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Periods by Felicita Tramontana
The 727/1327 Silk Weavers’ Rebellion in Alexandria: Religious Xenophobia, Homophobia, or Economic Grievances by Mahmood Ibrahim
Finding Meaning in the City: al-Maqrizi’s Use of Poetry in the Khitat by Martyn Smith
Short Notice: An Arabic History of the Byzantine Empire by Yehoshua Frenkel
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XV (2011) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Sending Home for Mom and Dad: The Extended Family Impulse in Mamluk Politics by Anne Broadbridge
Climbing the Ladder: Social Mobility in the Mamluk Period by Irmeli Perho
The Halqah in the Mamluk Army: Why Was it Not Dissolved When It Reached Its Nadir? by Amalia Levanoni
Hanafism and the turks in al-Tarasusi's Gift for the Turks (1352) by Baki Tezcan
The Politics of Insult: The Mamluk Sultanate's Response to Criminal Affronts by Carl F. Petry
On the Brink of a New Era? Yalbugha al-Khassaki (d. 1366) and the Yalbughawiyah by Jo Van Steenbergen
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XIV (2010) A festschrift in honor of Carl F. Petry (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Bibliography of Carl F. Petry's Publications
Al-Subki and His Women by Jonathan P. Berkey
“Our Sorry State!” Al-Buṣiri's Lamentations on Life and an Appeal for Cash by Th. Emil Homerin
Spy or Rebel? The Curious Incident of the Temurid Sultan-Husayn’s Defection to the Mamluks at Damascus in 803/1400–1 by Anne F. Broadbridge
Mamluk Historical Rajaz Poetry: Ibn Daniyal’s Judge List and Its Later Adaptations by Li Guo
Who Were the “Salt of the Earth” in Fifteenth-Century Egypt? by Amalia Levanoni
The Evolution of the Sultanic Fisc and al-Dhakhirah during the Circassian Mamluk Period by Igarashi Daisuke
From Ceramics to Social Theory: Reflections on Mamluk Archaeology Today by Bethany J. Walker
Maqriziana IX: Should al-Maqrizi Be Thrown Out with the Bath Water? The Question of His Plagiarism of al-Awhadi’s Khitat and the Documentary Evidence by Frédéric Bauden
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XIII no. 2 (2009) Religion in the Mamluk Period (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Obituary: Winslow W. Clifford, 1954–2009 by Bruce D. Craig
Introduction by Johannes Pahlitzsch
Mamluk Religious Policy by Jonathan P. Berkey
'Ilm, Shafa'ah, and Barakah: The Resources of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Ulama by Daniella Talmon-Heller
The Collection and Edition of Ibn Taymiyah’s Works: Concerns of a Disciple by Caterina Bori
The Problem of Sufism by Richard McGregor
Idealism and Intransigence: A Christian-Muslim Encounter in Early Mamluk Times by David Thomas
A Christian Arab Gospel Book: Cairo, Coptic Museum MS Bibl. 90 in its Mamluk Context by Lucy-Anne Hunt
At the Limits of Communal Autonomy: Jewish Bids for Intervention from the Mamluk State by Marina Rustow
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XIII no. 1 (2009) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Symbiotic Relations: Ulama and the Mamluk Sultans by Yaacov Lev
The Financial Reforms of Sultan Qaytbay by Igarashi Daisuke
The Sons of al-Nasir Muhammad and the Politics of Puppets:
Where Did It All Start? by Frédéric Bauden
The Tribal Dimension in Mamluk-Jordanian Relations by Bethany J. Walker
An Unpublished Anthology of the Mamluk Period on Generosity
and Generous Men by Antonella Ghersetti
Zulm by Mazalim? The Political Implications of the Use of Mazalim Jurisdiction by the Mamluk Sultans by Albrecht Fuess
Awqaf in Mamluk Bilad al-Sham by Yehoshua Frenkel
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XII no. 2 (2008) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Tankiz ibn 'Abd Allah al-Husami al-Nasiri (d. 740/1340) as Seen by His Contemporary al-Safadi (d. 764/1363) by Stephan Conermann
Ibn Nubatah al-Misri (686–768/1287–1366): Life and Works Part II: The Diwanof Ibn Nubatah by Thomas Bauer
Sultans with Horns: The Political Significance of Headgear in the Mamluk Empire by Albrecht Fuess
The Formation of the Civilian Elite in the Syrian Province: The Case of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Hamah by Konrad Hirschler
The Ayyubid and Mamluk Revaluation of the Hinterland and Western Historical Cartography by Kurt Franz
The 'Attar Mosque in Tripoli by Miriam Kühn
The Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad Madrasah in Cairo: Restoration and Archaeological Investigation by Philipp Speiser
When Is It Possible to Call Something Beautiful?: Some Observations about Aesthetics in Islamic Literature and Art by Rudolf Veselý
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XII no. 1 (2008) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Ibn Nubatah al-Misri (686–768/1287–1366): Life and Works Part I: The Life of Ibn Nubatah by Thomas Bauer
The Political Thinking of the "Virtuous Ruler," Qansuh al-Ghawri by Robert Irwin
Maqriziana II: Discovery of an Autograph Manuscript of al-Maqrizi: Towards a Better Understanding of His Working Method: Analysis by Frederic Bauden
Mamluks of Mongol Origin and Their Role in Early Mamluk Political Life by Reuven Amitai
Some Aspects of the Economic and Social Life of Ibn Taghribirdi Based on an Examination of His Waqfiyah by Hani Hamza
A Legal Instrument in the Service of People and Institutions: Endowments in Mamluk Jerusalem as Mirrored in the Haram Documents by Christian Müller
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XI no. 2 (2007) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Women and Gender in Mamluk Society: An Overview by Yossef Rapoport
The Four Madrasahs in the Complex of Sultan Hasan (1356–61): The Complete Survey by Howayda al-Harithy (Alternate version with higher resolution images: 11MB)
The Decline of the Ilkhanate and the Mamluk Sultanate’s Eastern Frontier by Patrick Wing
The Mongol Invasions of Bilad al-Sham by Ghazan Khan and Ibn Taymiyah’s Three "Anti-Mongol" Fatwas by Denise Aigle
Some Remarks on Ibn Tawq’s (d. 915/1509) Journal Al-Ta'liq, vol. 1 (885/1480 to 890/1485) by Stephan Conermann and Tilman Seidensticker
In Search of "Post-Classical Literature": A Review Article by Thomas Bauer
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XI no. 1 (2007) The Mamluk Provinces (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Making Syria Mamluk: Ibn Shaddad’s Al-A'laq al-Khatirah by Zayde Antrim
Fiscal Administration in Syria during the Reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad by Sato Tsugitaka
Public Projection of Power in Mamluk Bilad al-Sham by Yehoshua Frenkel
The Use of Fortification as a Political Instrument by the Ayyubids and the Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham and in Egypt (Twelfth–Thirteenth Centuries) by Benjamin Michaudel
Practice and Reform in Fourteenth-Century Damascene Madrasahs by Mahmood Ibrahim
A Mamluk Monument "Restored": The Dar al-Qur'an wa-al-Hadith of Tankiz al-Nasiri in Damascus by Ellen Kenney
Fahl during the Early Mamluk Period: Archaeological Perspectives by Stephen Mcphillips and Alan Walmsley
Khirbat Faris: Vernacular Architecture on the Karak Plateau, Jordan by Alison Mcquitty
Sowing the Seeds of Rural Decline?: Agriculture as an Economic Barometer for Late Mamluk Jordan by Bethany J. Walker
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume X no. 2 (2006) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Medieval Egyptian Society and the Concept of the Circle of Justice by Linda T. Darling
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyah: His Life and Works by Birgit Krawietz
Coptic Conversion and the Islamization of Egypt by Shaun O'sullivan
Maqriziana I: Discovery of an Autograph Manuscript of al-Maqrizi: Towards a Better Understanding of His Working Method: Description: Section 2 by Frederic Bauden
Crime in Mamluk Historiography: A Fraud Case Depicted by Ibn Taghribirdi by Carl F. Petry
The Making of a Sufi: al-Nuwayri's Account of the Origin of Genghis Khan by Lyall Armstrong
The Turbah of Tankizbugha by Hani Hamza (Alternate version with higher resolution images: 13MB)
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume X no. 1 (2006) Scholarship from Japan (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Mamluk Studies in Japan: Retrospect and Prospect by Sato Tsugitaka
An Analysis of 'Abd al-Basit al-Hanafi al-Malati's Description of the Year 848: On the Process of Writing History in the Late Fifteenth Century by Kikuchi Tadayoshi
The Rank and Status of Military Refugees in the Mamluk Army: A Reconsideration of the Wafidiyah by Nakamachi Nobutaka
Cairene Cemeteries as Public Loci in Mamluk Egypt by Ohtoshi Tetsuya
The Establishment and Development of al-Diwan al-Mufrad: Its Background and Implications by Igarashi Daisuke
Slave Traders and Karimi Merchants during the Mamluk Period: A Comparative Study by Sato Tsugitaka
Urban Society in Damascus as the Mamluk Era Was Ending by Miura Toru
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume IX no. 2 (2005) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
The Study of Islam within Mamluk Domains by Th. Emil Homerin
Mediators Between East and West: Christians Under Mamluk Rule by Johannes Pahlitzsch
The Sale of Office and Its Economic Consequences during the Rule of the Last Circassians (872–922/1468–1516) by Bernadette Martel-Thoumian
Economic Intervention and the Political Economy of the Mamluk State under al-Ashraf Barsbay by John L. Meloy
Mamluk Literature: Misunderstandings and New Approaches by Thomas Bauer
Popular Culture under the Mamluks: A Historiographical Survey by Jonathan P. Berkey
Veneto-Saracenic Metalware, a Mamluk Art by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Mamluk Elite on the Eve of al-Nasir Muhammad's Death (1341): A Look behind the Scenes of Mamluk Politics by Jo Van Steenbergen
Food and Cooking during the Mamluk Era: Social and Political Implications by Amalia Levanoni
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume IX no. 1 (2005) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Publications of Donald P. Little
Mamluk Era Documentary Studies: The State of the Art by Frederic Bauden
The Conquest of Arsuf by Baybars: Political and Military Aspects by Reuven Amitai (Alternate version with higher resolution images: 13MB)
The Archaeological Evidence from the Mamluk Siege of Arsuf by Kate Raphael and Yotam Tepper (Alternate version with higher resolution images: 17MB)
Tales of a Medieval Cairene Harem: Domestic Life in al-Biqa'i's Autobiographical Chronicle by Li Guo
The Construction of Gender Symbolism in Ibn Sirin's and Ibn Shahin's Medieval Arabic Dream Texts by Huda Lutfi
Notes on the Contemporary Sources of the Year 793 by Sami G. Massoud
The al-Nashw Episode: A Case Study of "Moral Economy" by Amalia Levanoni
The Politics of the Mamluk Sultanate: A Review Essay by R. Stephen Humphreys
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume VIII no. 2 (2004) Mamluk Economic History (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Invisible Peasants, Marauding Nomads: Taxation, Tribalism, and Rebellion in Mamluk Egypt by Yossef Rapoport
Sharp Practice in Levantine Trade in the Late Middle Ages: The Brizi-Corner Affair of 1376–77 by Ralph S. Hattox
The Last Decades of Venice's Trade with the Mamluks: Importations into Egypt and Syria by Benjamin Arbel
Sugar in the Economic Life of Mamluk Egypt by Sato Tsugitaka
A Note on Archaeological Evidence for Sugar Production in the Middle Islamic Periods in Bilad al-Sham by Katherine Strange Burke
Mamluk Investment in Transjordan: a "Boom and Bust" Economy by Bethany J. Walker (Alternate version with higher resolution images: 12MB)
The Regime and the Urban Wheat Market: The Famine of 662/1263–64 in Cairo by Yaacov Lev
Reconstructing Life in Medieval Alexandria from an Eighth/Fourteenth Century Waqf Document by Niall Christie (Alternate version with higher resolution iamges: 11MB)
Thirty Years after Lopez, Miskimin, and Udovitch by Stuart J. Borsch
The Rise of a New Class? Land Tenure in Fifteenth-Century Egypt: A Review Article by Adam Sabra
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume VIII no. 1 (2004) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Ceramic Evidence for Political Transformations in Early Mamluk Egypt by Bethany J. Walker
Ibn Tulun (d. 955/1548): Life and Works by Stephan Conermann
Mamluk Furusiyah Literature and Its Antecedents by Shihab Al-Sarraf
Political Violence and Ideology in Mamluk Society by Daniel Beaumont
Black Camels and Blazing Bolts: The Bolt-Projecting Trebuchet in the Mamluk Army by Paul E. Chevedden (Alternate version with higher resolution images: 26MB)
The Fire of 884/1479 at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and an Account of Its Restoration by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume VII no. 2 (2003) Al-Maqrizi (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Who Was al-Maqrizi? A Biographical Sketch by Nasser Rabbat
Maqriziana I: Discovery of an Autograph Manuscript of al-Maqrizi: Towards a Better Understanding of His Working Method: Description: Section 1 by Frederic Bauden (Alternate version with higher resolution images: 10MB)
Al-Maqrizi, Hashimism, and the Early Caliphates by Paul M. Cobb
Al-Maqrizi and the Fatimids by Paul E. Walker
Al-Maqrizi as a Historian of the Early Mamluk Sultanate (or: Is al-Maqrizi an Unrecognized Historiographical Villain?) by Reuven Amitai
Al-Maqrizi as a Historian of the Reign of Barquq by Sami G. Massoud
Al-Maqrizi's Discussion of Imprisonment and Description of Jails in the Khitat by Carl F. Petry
Al-Maqrizi's Khitat and the Urban Structure of Mamluk Cairo by Andre Raymond
"It Has No Root Among Any Community That Believes in Revealed Religion, Nor Legal Foundation for Its Implementation": Placing al-Maqrizi's Comments on Money in a Wider Context by Warren C. Schultz
The Merits of Economic History: Re-Reading al-Maqrizi's Ighathah and Shudhur by John L. Meloy
A Comparison of al-Maqrizi and al-'Ayni as Historians of Contemporary Events by Donald P. Little
Al-Maqrizi and Ibn Khaldun, Historians of the Unseen by Robert Irwin
Royal Authority, Justice, and Order in Society: The Influence of Ibn Khaldun on the Writings of al-Maqrizi and Ibn Taghribirdi by Anne F. Broadbridge
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume VII no. 1 (2003) Mamluk Literature (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Mamluk Literature by Robert Irwin
Poetry for Easy Listening: Insijam and Related Concepts in Ibn Hijjah's Khizanat al-Adab by Geert Jan van Gelder
Communication and Emotion: The Case of Ibn Nubatah's Kindertotenlieder by Thomas Bauer
An Alexandrian Age in Fourteenth-Century Damascus: Twin Commentaries on Two Celebrated Arabic Epistles by Everett Rowson
Vindicating a Profession or a Personal Career? Al-Qalqashandi's Maqamah in Context by Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi
The First Layer of the Sirat Baybars: Popular Romance and Political Propaganda by Thomas Herzog
The Shadow Play in Mamluk Egypt: The Genre and Its Cultural Implications by Amila Buturovic
The Devil's Advocate: Ibn Daniyal's Art of Parody in His Qasidah No. 71 by Li Guo
Living Love: The Mystical Writings of 'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyah (d. 922/1516) by Th. Emil Homerin
Laila 'Ali Ibrahim, 1917–2002 (obituary) by Nasser Rabbat
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume VI (2002) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
"Mediators and Wanderers": Ulrich Haarmann and Mamluk Studies by W. W. Clifford
Notes on Mamluk Madrasahs by Donald P. Little
Awlad al-Nas as Founders of Pious Endowments: The Waqfiyah of Yahya ibn Tughan al-Hasani of the Year 870/1465 by Stephan Conermann and Suad Saghbini (Alternate verion with higher resolution images: 9MB)
Religious Endowments and Succession to Rule: The Career of a Sultan's Son in the Fifteenth Century by Lucian Reinfandt
The Privatization of "Justice" Under the Circassian Mamluks by Robert Irwin
Sultan al-Ghawri and the Arts by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Between Qadis and Muftis: To Whom Does the Mamluk Sultan Listen? by Leonor Fernandes
What Ibn Khaldun Saw: The Judiciary of Mamluk Egypt by Morimoto Kosei
Aspects of Islamization of Space and Society in Mamluk Jerusalem and Its Hinterland by Nimrod Luz
Perception of Architecture in Mamluk Sources by Nasser Rabbat
Qaytbay's Diplomatic Dilemma Concerning the Flight of Cem Sultan (1481-82) by Ralph S. Hattox
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume V (2001) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
The Mamluk System of Rule in the Eyes of Western Travelers by Ulrich Haarmann
Mamluk Egyptian Copper Coinage Before 759/1357-1358: A Preliminary Inquiry by Warren C. Schultz
Rotting Ships and Razed Harbors: The Naval Policy of the Mamluks by Albrecht Fuess
Al-Suyuti and His Works: Their Place in Islamic Scholarship from Mamluk Times to the Present by Marlis J. Saleh
Mamluk Legitimacy and the Mongols: The Reigns of Baybars and Qalawun by Anne F. Broadbridge
Qalawun's Patronage of the Medical Sciences in Thirteenth-Century Egypt by Linda S. Northrup
The Sultan, the Tyrant and the Hero: Changing Medieval Perceptions of al-Zahir Baybars by Amina A. Elbendary
Arabic Studies of Mamluk Jerusalem: A Review Article by Robert Schick
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume IV (2000) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Ulrich Haarmann, 1942-1999 (obituary) by Stephan Conermann
Under Western Eyes: A History of Mamluk Studies by Robert Irwin
Storytelling, Preaching, and Power in Mamluk Cairo by Jonathan P. Berkey
Silver Coins of the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun (678-689/1279-1290) from the Mints of Cairo, Damascus, Hamah, and al-Marqab by Elisabeth Puin
Nile Floods and the Irrigation System in Fifteenth-Century Egypt by Stuart J. Borsch
The Sultan Who Loved Sufis: How Qaytbay Established a Shrine Complex in Dasuq by Helena Hallenberg
The Social Implications of Textile Development in Fourteenth-Century Egypt by Bethany Walker
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The Patronage of al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun, 1310-1341 by Howayda al-Harithy
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume III (1999) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
David Ayalon, 1914-1998 (obituary) by Reuven Amitai
"Quis Custodiet Custodes?" Revisited: The Prosecution of Crime in the Late Mamluk Sultanate by Carl F. Petry
Mamluk Art and Architectural History: A Review Article by Jonathan Bloom
Saving Muslim Souls: The Khanqah and the Sufi Duty in Mamluk Lands by Th. Emil Homerin
Academic Rivalry and the Patronage System in Fifteenth-Century Egypt: al-'Ayni, al-Maqrizi, and Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani by Anne F. Broadbridge
Environmental Hazards, Natural Disasters, Economic Loss, and Mortality in Mamluk Syria by William Tucker
Qaytbay's Madrasahs in the Holy Cities and the Evolution of Haram Architecture by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Makki "al-Shahid al-Awwal" (d. 1384) and the Shi'ah of Syria by Stefan H. Winter
Mamluk Monetary History: A Review Essay by Warren C. Schultz
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume II (1998) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Ayyubids, Mamluks, and the Latin East in the Thirteenth Century by R. Stephen Humphreys
A Holograph MS of Ibn Qadi Shuhbah's "Dhayl" by David Reisman
A Geniza for Mamluk Studies? Charitable Trust (Waqf) Documents as a Source for Economic and Social History by Carl F. Petry
Sultan Qaytbay's Foundation in Medina, the Madrasah, the Ribat and the Dashishah by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
The Proposers and Supervisors of al-Rawk al-Nasiri in Mamluk Egypt by Sato Tsugitaka
Documents Related to the Estates of a Merchant and His Wife in Late Fourteenth Century Jerusalem by Donald P. Little
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume I (1997) (Click to expand.)
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Individual articles:
Documents as a Source for Mamluk History by Donald P. Little
Mamluk Historiographic Studies: The State of the Art by Li Guo
Ubi Sumus? Social Theory and Mamluk Studies by W. W. Clifford
Reflections on Poetry in the Mamluk Age by Th. Emil Homerin
The Mahmal Tradition and the Pilgrimage of the Ladies of the Mamluk Court by Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Mamluk Archeological Studies: A Review by Donald Whitcomb
Mamluk Architecture and the Question of Patronage by Leonor Fernandes
Book Reviews
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