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.
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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Everything is on the Move : The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks
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The Rise and Fall of a Muslim Regiment : The Manṣūriyya in the First Mamluk Sultanate, 678/1279–741/1341
Amir Mazor
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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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Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives
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Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period : Jews in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates (1171–1517)
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The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History : Economic, Social and Cultural Development in an Era of Increasing International Interaction and Competition
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Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century
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Living with Nature and Things : Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods
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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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Studies on the History and Culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)
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