This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of 'factuality' versus 'fictivity'. None of the authors set out to write 'fiction'; nor would their audience have received their accounts as such. The events depicted were a matter of historical record; but their meaning was geared both to contemporary and to general concerns. The fact of telling them is part and parcel of the historian's task; the means of telling them has to do with the historian's choice of style; and style is all-important in conveying meaning. Were these accounts not considered 'true', the purpose behind their telling and the meaning they convey, would, arguably, be lost; but were they not told in the most effective manner, their meaning might not be clearly grasped.
History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250–1517) : Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Institute for Advanced Study III
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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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Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200–1500
Jan Hinrich Hagedorn
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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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Al-Qaul al-mu'ab fi l-qada' bi l-mugab
Souad Saghbini
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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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Islamic Philosophy from the 12th to the 14th Century
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