
Richards, Warren Schultz and Hannah Taragan.

With contributions by Reuven Aharoni, Reuven Amitai, Frederic Bauden, Jonathan Berkey, Daniel Crecelius, Joseph Drory, Jane Hathaway, Robert Irwin, Donald Little, Nimrod Luz, Carl Petry, Thomas Philipp, Yossef Rapoport, Andre Raymond, Donald S. The last part of the volume describes the Mamluk military class that survived in Egypt (although in a transformed form) under the Ottoman suzerainty after the Empire annexed Egypt and Syria in 1517. The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society electronic resource / edited by Michael Winter and Amalia Levanoni. There are special articles about Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Safed and Acre. It was a Sunni orthodox state that had a formidable military, a developed and sophisticated economy, a centralized Arab bureaucracy and prestigious religious and educational institutions. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks (manumitted military slaves, mostly Turks and Circassians). This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks. The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society / edited by Michael Winter and Amalia Levanoni. This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks. The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society Michael. The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society / edited by Michael Winter and Amalia Levanoni.
