{"product_id":"mamluk-cairo-a-crossroads-for-embassies-studies-on-diplomacy-and-diplomatics-9789004384620","title":"Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies: Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy.  With contributions by Frédéric Bauden, Lotfi Ben Miled, Michele Bernardini, Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, Anne F. Broadbridge, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Stephan Conermann, Nicholas Coureas, Malika Dekkiche, Rémi Dewière, Kristof D’hulster, Marie Favereau, Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Yehoshua Frenkel, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Ludvik Kalus, Anna Kollatz, Julien Loiseau, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, John L. Meloy, Pierre Moukarzel, Lucian Reinfandt, Alessandro Rizzo, Éric Vallet, Valentina Vezzoli and Patrick Wing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In addition to the focus on diplomacy, this volume offers a wealth of material on society, religion, and politics and on the range of government officials, soldiers, scholars, and merchants during the Mamluk era. These contributions provide an important resource for anyone interested in the broad historical reach of the Mamluks.\" - Daniel Varisco in Journal of the American Oriental Society 141.1 (2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Abbreviations Charts, Figures, and Tables Notes on Contributors   1 Mamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of Research  Frédéric Bauden   2 Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of Research  Malika Dekkiche   Part 1 Diplomatic Conventions   3 Diplomatics, or Another Way to See the World  Malika Dekkiche   4 Strong Letters at the Mamluk Court  Lucian Reinfandt   5 Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo  Yehoshua Frenkel   Part 2 The Mongols and Their Successors   6 Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658–741\/1260–1341  Anne F. Broadbridge   7 The Golden Horde and the Mamluks: the Birth of a Diplomatic Set-Up (660–5\/1261–7)  Marie Favereau   8 Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing?  Reuven Amitai   9 Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambitions and Ideologies during the Seventh\/Thirteenth and Eighth\/Fourteenth Centuries  Hend Gilli-Elewy   10 Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sulṭān Aḥmad Jalāyir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate  Patrick Wing   Part 3 The Timurids, the Turkmens, and the Ottomans   11 Niẓām al-Dīn Shāmī’s Description of the Syrian Campaign of Tīmūr  Michele Bernardini   12 Diplomatic Entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter Datable to 818\/1415  Frédéric Bauden   13 Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Sultan Meḥmed II’s Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions  Kristof D’hulster   Part 4 The Western Islamic Lands   14 Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the Last Hope for al-Andalus  Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo   15 Entre Ifrīqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées  Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi   16 Tracking Down the Hafsid Diplomatic Missions All the Way to the Turco-Mamluk Borders (892–6\/1487–91)  Lotfi Ben Miled   Part 5 Arabia, India, and Africa   17 Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh\/Thirteenth to Early Ninth\/Fifteenth Centuries)  Éric Vallet   18 “Aggression in the Best of Lands”: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth\/Fifteenth Century  John L. Meloy   19 Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi\/Dawlatābād, and Aḥmadābād during the Eighth\/Fourteenth and Ninth\/Fifteenth Centuries  Stephan Conermann and Anna Kollatz   20 The Ḥaṭī and the Sultan: Letters and Embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court  Julien Loiseau   21 “Peace Be upon Those Who Follow the Right Way”: Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the End of the Eighth\/Fourteenth Century  Rémi Dewière   Part 6 The Latin West   22 The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo  Pierre Moukarzel   23 In the Name of the Minorities: Lisbon’s Muslims as Emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt  Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros   24 Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838–78\/1435–73: the Accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghrī Birdī  Nicholas Coureas   25 Negotiating the Last Mamluk-Venetian Commercial Decree (922–3\/1516–7): Commercial Liability from the Sixth\/Twelfth to the Early Tenth\/Sixteenth Century  Gladys Frantz-Murphy   26 Three Mamluk Letters Concerning the Florentine Trade in Egypt and Syria: a New Interpretation  Alessandro Rizzo   Part 7 Material Culture   27 Écritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des cérémonies officielles à l’ époque mamelouke  Ludvik Kalus   28 Precious Objects for Eminent Guests: the Use of Chinese Ceramics in Mamluk Cairo: the Fustat Ceramic Collection from The Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels)  Valentina Vezzoli   Indexes","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210762641751,"sku":"9789004384620","price":156.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mamluk-cairo-a-crossroads-for-embassies-studies-on-diplomacy-and-diplomatics-9789004384620","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}