Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule

Amalia Levanoni (Ph.D. Hebrew University, 1990) is Professor Emerita of Medieval Islamic History at Haifa University. She served as Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa from 2004-2007 and as President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel from 2014-2016. Her research focuses on the political and material culture of Mamluk Egypt and Syria, 1250-1517. She is the author of The Mamluk Ascendancy to Power in Egypt (Haifa, 1987), A Turning Point in Mamluk History, The Third Reign of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn (1310-1341) (Leiden, 1995) and co-editor (with Michael Winter) of The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society(Leiden, 2004). She published numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes and journals, such as Studia Islamica, the /i>International Journal of Middle East Studies, Der Islam, Mamluk Studies Review and Arabica and is responsible for many entries in encyclopedias.

• PrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1 Public Space1 Protest Songs from the Streets of Mamluk CitiesLi Gou2 Travails of Prohibition: Suppression of Alcohol Use in the Mamluk SultanateCarl F. Petry3 Europeans and Ottomans in the Mamluk Sultanate: Notes on Terminology and SourcesYaacov LevPart 2 Political Culture4 The Names of the Mamlūks: Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Solidarity in the Mamluk Sultanate (648–922/1250–1517)Koby Yosef5 Nomen Est Omen: David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the Reign of the TurksJo Van Steenbergen6 A High Officer and His Reward: The Public Activity of a Commander of the Sultan’s Arms Depot in the Early Fourteenth CenturyJoseph DroryPart 3 Archival Literature7 Ikhwāniyyāt Letters in the Mamluk Period: A Document (Muṭālaʿa) Issued by al-Muʾayyad Shaykh’s Chancery and a Contribution to Mamluk DiplomaticsFrédéric BaudenPart 4 Economy of Infrastructures8 Grain, Textiles, and Demand Elasticity in Late Mamluk Egypt: A Preliminary SketchStuart Borsch9 The Management of Water in Fourteenth-Century DamascusYehoshua Frenkel10 Urban Water Management in the Medieval Middle East: The Case of Mamluk CairoAmalia Levanoni11 Waqf as a Means of Securing Financial Assets: The “Self-Benefiting Waqf” in Mamluk Egypt and SyriaDaisuke IgarashiPart 5 Communication Systems12 Handlist of Stations of the Ayyubid and Mamluk Communication SystemsKurt FranzIndex