Offering insights into the unique outlook of slave soldiers who created the Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea from 1250 to 1517, this is an accessible and comprehensive survey of the realm for undergraduate students and gener…
Synopsis of events -- Ethos of the 'slave-soldiers' regime -- The Mamluk Sultanate from a global perspective -- Vocational classes : bureaucrats, magistrates, scholastics, clerics -- The political economy; Contexts of innovation -- The cultural legacy; Patronage, audience, genre…
The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime of slave-soldiers incorporated many of the political structures and cultural t…
"Covering over one thousand years of history and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein's Reading the Middle Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life. Building on the strengths of the first …
Orta Asya'da Arap fetihleri
by Gibb, H. A. R., (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen)
fromÇağlar Yayınları
Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness so…
