Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). He has published extensively on late medieval Syro-Egyptian socio-political and cultural history, including Order Out of Chaos (Brill, 2006) and Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History (Brill, 2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Tables and MapsList on ContributorsIntroduction: State Formation in the Fifteenth Century and the Western Eurasian Canvas: Problems and OpportunitiesJo Van SteenbergenMapsPart 1: Whither the Fifteenth Century?1 From Temür to Selim: Trajectories of Turko-Mongol State Formation in Islamic West-Asia’s Long Fifteenth Century Jo Van Steenbergen2 Studying Rulers and States across Fifteenth Century Western Eurasia Jan Dumolyn and Jo Van SteenbergenPart 2: From Cairo to Constantinople: The Construction of West-Asian Centers of Power3 The Road to the Citadel as a Chain of Opportunity: Mamluks’ Careers between Contingency and InstitutionalizationKristof D’hulster4 The Syro-Egyptian Sultanate in Transformation, 1496–1498: Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qaytbay and the Reformation of mamlūk Institutions and Symbols of State PowerAlbrecht Fuess5 Tales of Viziers and Wine: Interpreting Early Ottoman Narratives of State CentralizationDimitri KastritsisPart 3: From Khwaf to Alexandria: The Accommodation of West-Asian Peripheries of Power6 Iranian Elites under the TimuridsBeatrice F. Manz7 The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk HegemonyJohn L. Meloy8 The Syrian Commercial Elite and Mamluk State-Building in the Fifteenth CenturyPatrick Wing9 Settling Accounts with the Sultan: Cortesia, Zemechia and Venetian Fiscality in Fifteenth Century AlexandriaGeorg ChristIndex

Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). He has published extensively on late medieval Syro-Egyptian socio-political and cultural history, including Order Out of Chaos (Brill, 2006) and Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History (Brill, 2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Tables and MapsList on ContributorsIntroduction: State Formation in the Fifteenth Century and the Western Eurasian Canvas: Problems and OpportunitiesJo Van SteenbergenMapsPart 1: Whither the Fifteenth Century?1 From Temür to Selim: Trajectories of Turko-Mongol State Formation in Islamic West-Asia’s Long Fifteenth Century Jo Van Steenbergen2 Studying Rulers and States across Fifteenth Century Western Eurasia Jan Dumolyn and Jo Van SteenbergenPart 2: From Cairo to Constantinople: The Construction of West-Asian Centers of Power3 The Road to the Citadel as a Chain of Opportunity: Mamluks’ Careers between Contingency and InstitutionalizationKristof D’hulster4 The Syro-Egyptian Sultanate in Transformation, 1496–1498: Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qaytbay and the Reformation of mamlūk Institutions and Symbols of State PowerAlbrecht Fuess5 Tales of Viziers and Wine: Interpreting Early Ottoman Narratives of State CentralizationDimitri KastritsisPart 3: From Khwaf to Alexandria: The Accommodation of West-Asian Peripheries of Power6 Iranian Elites under the TimuridsBeatrice F. Manz7 The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk HegemonyJohn L. Meloy8 The Syrian Commercial Elite and Mamluk State-Building in the Fifteenth CenturyPatrick Wing9 Settling Accounts with the Sultan: Cortesia, Zemechia and Venetian Fiscality in Fifteenth Century AlexandriaGeorg ChristIndex

Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). He has published extensively on late medieval Syro-Egyptian socio-political and cultural history, including Order Out of Chaos (Brill, 2006) and Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History (Brill, 2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Tables and MapsList on ContributorsIntroduction: State Formation in the Fifteenth Century and the Western Eurasian Canvas: Problems and OpportunitiesJo Van SteenbergenMapsPart 1: Whither the Fifteenth Century?1 From Temür to Selim: Trajectories of Turko-Mongol State Formation in Islamic West-Asia’s Long Fifteenth Century Jo Van Steenbergen2 Studying Rulers and States across Fifteenth Century Western Eurasia Jan Dumolyn and Jo Van SteenbergenPart 2: From Cairo to Constantinople: The Construction of West-Asian Centers of Power3 The Road to the Citadel as a Chain of Opportunity: Mamluks’ Careers between Contingency and InstitutionalizationKristof D’hulster4 The Syro-Egyptian Sultanate in Transformation, 1496–1498: Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qaytbay and the Reformation of mamlūk Institutions and Symbols of State PowerAlbrecht Fuess5 Tales of Viziers and Wine: Interpreting Early Ottoman Narratives of State CentralizationDimitri KastritsisPart 3: From Khwaf to Alexandria: The Accommodation of West-Asian Peripheries of Power6 Iranian Elites under the TimuridsBeatrice F. Manz7 The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk HegemonyJohn L. Meloy8 The Syrian Commercial Elite and Mamluk State-Building in the Fifteenth CenturyPatrick Wing9 Settling Accounts with the Sultan: Cortesia, Zemechia and Venetian Fiscality in Fifteenth Century AlexandriaGeorg ChristIndex