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A Turning Point in Mamluk History

The Third Reign of al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn (1310-1341)

By: Amalia Levanoni

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A Turning Point in Mamluk History

The Third Reign of al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn (1310-1341)

By: Amalia Levanoni

A Turning Point in Mamluk History deals with the process of decline of the Mamluk state (1250-1517). Its main thesis is that the origins of this process are to be found in the third reign of al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn, more specifically in the changes he effected in the Mamluk system. The Mamluk army was the first to be confronted with these changes, whose impact on the social and political life of the Mamluk elite was already felt during al-Nāsir's own lifetime. The author follows their course of development to the end of autonomous Mamluk rule and reveals the transformation they wrought in the Mamluk code of values and political concepts. A final chapter deals with the overall economic decline of the Mamluk state and establishes the link of its various causes—demographic decline, monetary crises, the collapse of agriculture and industry—with Mamluk government misrule. Here it is al-Nāsir's expenditure policy and its repercussions on the economy which reveal his reign as a point of no return.

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9004493034

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A Turning Point in Mamluk History

The Third Reign of al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn (1310-1341)

By: Amalia Levanoni

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The Third Reign of al-Nāsir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn (1310-1341)

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Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives

By: Stephan Conermann

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Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives

By: Stephan Conermann

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.

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V&R Unipress

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384700722X

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A Turning Point in Mamluk History

A Turning Point in Mamluk History

A Turning Point in Mamluk History

A Turning Point in Mamluk History

Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives

Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives

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