Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society.

CONTENTS -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE FORMATIVE STAGE OF THE MAMLUK SULTANATE -- CHAPTER ONE Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars's Red Mosque at Safed -- CHAPTER TWO The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties -- PART TWO MAMLUK ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE -- CHAPTER THREE Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Haram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem -- CHAPTER FOUR The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place -- PART THREE CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE MAMLUK ARMY -- CHAPTER FIVE The Sultan's Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism? -- CHAPTER SIX Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered -- PART FOUR PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN MAMLUK PALESTINE -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Governance of Jerusalem under Qāytbāy -- CHAPTER EIGHT Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period -- PART FIVE IBN TAYMIYYA AND MAMLUK SOCIETY -- CHAPTER NINE Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths -- PART SIX MAMLUK ECONOMY -- CHAPTER TEN The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The muhtasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Estate of al-Khuwand Fātima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor -- PART SEVEN THE MAMLUKS IN SYRIA -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Last Mamluk Household -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of Socio-cultural Forces -- PART EIGHT THE MAMLUKS IN OTTOMAN EGYPT -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Problems of Abd al-Rahmān Katkhuda's Leadership of the Qazdughli Faction -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Mamluk "revivals" and Mamluk Nostalgia in Ottoman Egypt -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Bedouin and Mamluks in Egypt-Co-existence in a State of Duality -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.