... impacted Tunisian society and French colonial administration by uncovering the social strategies of the descendants of mamluks who until the 1840s came from Europe and were converted to Islam in order to serve the Tunisian authorities. These descendants chose different paths: from administrative careers...

... a military system based exclusively on mamluk infantry, the vast majority of whom were of slave castes. By comparison to the mamluks, employment of military slaves and militia derived from the regions of sub-Saharan Africa that had occurred both before and after the Ottoman period has been overlooked...

..., discordant interpretations of Ottoman history presented in four works by notable Egyptian historians: `Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (ca. 1824), `Ali Pasha Mubarak (ca. 1889); Muhammad Farid (ca. 1912); and `Umar al-Iskandari and Salim Hasan (ca. 1919). The article investigates how the defeated Mamluk sultanate...

... Dyala Hamzah gradually realized what it would take in terms of Ottoman-Albanian troops, Muhammad ‘Ali military reorganization to pursue his ambition. now had a free hand to attend to his military Having fi nally done away with the Mamluks in scheme. To build an army anew, he resorted to 1811, he...

... classes by offering the previously dis- was Sir Evelyn Baring [Lord Cromer], who had been in Egypt cussed incentives. It was through these measures that he at the end of Ismail’s reign as British controller. broke the power of the old mamluk elite. While Ismail did Cromer’s education policy...

...], who had been in Egypt cussed incentives. It was through these measures that he at the end of Ismail’s reign as British controller. broke the power of the old mamluk elite. While Ismail did Cromer’s education policy was governed by the objective introduce some fees into the school system...

... or pun, music. themes of homoeroticism are all but nonexistent In a Foucauldian vein, Ze’evi contrasts in this genre that was so prevalent in the Mamluk Sharia with qanun and argues that the qanun shadow theater from which it most likely origi...

... or pun, music. themes of homoeroticism are all but nonexistent In a Foucauldian vein, Ze’evi contrasts in this genre that was so prevalent in the Mamluk Sharia with qanun and argues that the qanun shadow theater from which it most likely origi...

... dubious. In this over the Mamluks. In that year, formal use of the title short paper we can review these matters only quite Khalifa for an Ottoman Sultan came about purely by briefly. coincidence. During negotiations with the victorious Origins...

... in Istanbul , 16 . 62. Findley, Enlightening Europe , 164–65 . 63. 7 Numaralı Mühimme Defteri (975–76/1567–1569), 162 . 64. Similar anxieties are also to be found in Mamluk Egypt, where such behavior deemed immoral by the authorities as singing, dancing, drinking, and the mingling...

... ( 1952 ): 48 – 65 . Banister Mustafa . “ Casting the Caliph in a Cosmic Role: Examining al-Suyuti's Historical Vision .” In Al-Suyuti, A Polymath of the Mamluk Period , edited by Ghersetti Antonella , 98 – 117 . Leiden : Brill , 2016 . Bein Amit . “ The Istanbul Earthquake...

..., including Kitāb at-tagalliyāt ( The Book of Epiphanies ), first published in Cairo in 1985. In the novel, al-Ghīṭānī creates memory sites, conflates Egypt's Mamluk past with its Nasserite period, and collapses different stages in Egyptian Islamic history so he can use the medieval past as a lens...

... home island of Java.23 In each of these instances, fa- scale but also were increasingly put off by what they cilitated by the Dutch (for example visvis Shaykh saw as local avarice (and perhaps also by Mamluk Yusuf) or by the Javanese in the various guises and Ottoman...

... Practice and Dispute Resolution in Çankırı and Kastamonu (1652–1744) . Boston : Brill , 2003 . Johansen Baber . The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: The Peasants Loss of Property as Interpreted in the Hanafite Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Period . London : Routledge , 2016...

...-century for the sultans. The tax rights seized from the India had been supremacies that both the Mo- massacred Mamluk elite were poured into the guls and the British had often consciously al- building of a modern standing army. Mehmet lowed to do their work for them. In the new age Ali...

... that preceded the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1516–17. They both played important legitimizing functions for the empire and, from the perspective of Istanbul, were increasingly subject to internal threats from local rulers and external threats from European powers. After the occupation of Egypt...

..., metaphori- The modern Rughal is described in a cally speaking, means “he who has lost his way.” short article on the website of The as not hav- 399 Rughal heads an organization called Mamluk ing perished in the explosion of Husn al- Ma’rifa International Corporate O ces in Hong Kong...

... Denise . “ The Mongol Invasions of Bilād Al-Shām by Ghāzān Khān and Ibn Taymīyah's Three ‘Anti-Mongol’ Fatwas .” Mamluk Studies Review 11 , no. 2 ( 2007 ): 89 – 120 . Assmann Jan . The Price of Monotheism . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . Babaie Sussan...

...- history lesson on the numerous conquests of Palestine. form to his own stubborn innocence. And in keeping Reminding Sa‘id that ‘Akka was liberated from the Cru- with the cultural tradition of the fool who doubles as saders by the Mamluk leader Qalawun in 1291, he adds: prophet, his linguistic...

... Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750–1950 . London : Routledge , 1999 . Tucker Ernest S. Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2006 . Tucker William F. “Natural Disasters and the Peasantry in Mamluk Egypt...