Slavery touched many aspects of Mamluk society. This volume focuses on the role of slaves within the family, from birth to purchase, liberation, and death. It investigates domestic slavery in Syrian and Egyptian society from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. Jan Hagedorn focuses on the agency of slaves in the context of master-slave relationships within households and in wider society. He argues that the ability of slaves to shape the world around them was underpinned by a constant process of negotiation within the master-slave relationship and that intermediaries such as the court system channelled the agency of slaves. The principal sources for this study are purchase contracts, listening certificates, marriage contracts, and estate inventories in combination with scribal, market inspection, and slave purchase manuals as well as chronicles.
Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives
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History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250–1517) : Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Institute for Advanced Study III
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Gami' al-mustanadat : Eine Edition der fünf Kaufverträge und der Waqf-Urkunde des Emirs Faḫr ad-Dīn Abū ʿAmr ʿUṯmān b. Uġulbak al-Ḥalabī
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Mamlukica : Studies on the History and Society of the Mamluk Period / Studien zu Geschichte und Gesellschaft der Mamlukenzeit
Stephan Conermann
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History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250–1517) : Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Institute for Advanced Study II
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Everything is on the Move : The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks
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State formation and the structure of politics in Mamluk Syro-Egypt, 648–741 A.H./1250–1340 C.E.
Winslow Williams Clifford
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Lisān al-ḥukkām fī maˁrifat al-aḥkām und Ġāyat al-marām fī tatimmat lisān al-ḥukkām
Lisan A. Abu'l-Walid A b aš-Šiḥna al-Ḥanafī, Burhan Ibrahim al-Ḫālifī al-ʿAdawī
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Mamlukische Minbare : Islamische Predigtkanzeln in Ägypten, Syrien, Libanon, Israel und den Palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten zwischen 1250 und 1517
Miriam Kühn
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Maqāmat al-Naṣr fī Manāqīb Imām al-ʿAṣr
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Zamlakānī
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at-Tarāǧim al-ǧalīla al-ǧaliyya wa-l-ašyāḫ al-ʿāliya al-ʿaliyya
Aḥmad Aybak Ibn Aybak ad-Dumyāṭī
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