Description
Book SynopsisThis book aims to examine the structural changes in the state and society in Mamluk Egypt and Syria after the middle of the eighth/fourteenth century. Between 648/1250 and 922/1517, the Mamluk sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria, and the Hijaz, the central Middle East.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
I. The Political System in the Post al-Nasir Muhammad Era: The Formation Process of the Circassian Mamluk Sultanate
II. The Establishment and Development of al-Diwan al-Mufrad
Table 1. Egyptian Nahiyahs assigned to al-Diwan al-Mufrad in the reigns of Qaytbay and Barquq
Table 2. Financial difficulties in al-Diwan al-Mufrad (1)
Table 3. Financial difficulties in al-Diwan al-Mufrad (2)
III. Sultanic Private Property and Diwan al-Amlak
Table 4. Assets Listed in Waqf Deeds Issued by Barquq
Table 5. Geographic distribution of assets
Table 6. Types of assets
Table 7. Barquq's Waqf Lands Listed in Tuhfah
Table 8. Situations in which Barquq acquired property or endowed waqfs
Table 9. Barquq's Agent (wakil)
IV. The Evolution of the Sultanic Fisc and al-Dhakhirah
Table 10. People appointed as sultan's private financier and their titles
V. The Fiscal System in the Late Mamluk Period
VI. Religious Endowments and Changes in the Landholding System
Table 13. Military offices that customarily held additional posts as administrators of waqf-financed institutions
Conclusion
Appendix: Sultans and Atabaks in the Late Bahri Mamluk Period
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