Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences

"The concept, practice, institution and appearance of 'the state' have been hotly debated ever since the emergence of history as a discipline within modern scholarship. The field of medieval Islamic history, however, has remained aloof from most of these debates. Rather it tends to ta...

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Other Authors: Steenbergen, J. van (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill [2020], 2020
Series:Rulers & elites
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505 0 |a From Temür to Selim: Trajectories of Turko-Mongol State Formation in Islamic West-Asia's Long Fifteenth Century / Jo Van Steenbergen -- Studying Rulers and States across Fifteenth Century Western Eurasia / Jan Dumolyn and Jo Van Steenbergen -- The Road to the Citadel as a Chain of Opportunity: Mamluks' Careers between Contingency and Institutionalization / Kristof D'hulster -- The Syro-Egyptian Sultanate in Transformation, 1496-1498: Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qaytbay and the Reformation of mamlūk Institutions and Symbols of State Power / Albrecht Fuess -- Tales of Viziers and Wine: Interpreting Early Ottoman Narratives of State Centralization / Dimitri Kastritsis -- Iranian Elites under the Timurids / Beatrice F. Manz -- The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk Hegemony / John L. Meloy -- The Syrian Commercial Elite and Mamluk State-Building in the Fifteenth Century / Patrick Wing -- Settling Accounts with the Sultan: Cortesia, Zemechia and Venetian Fiscality in Fifteenth Century Alexandria / Georg Christ 
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520 |a "The concept, practice, institution and appearance of 'the state' have been hotly debated ever since the emergence of history as a discipline within modern scholarship. The field of medieval Islamic history, however, has remained aloof from most of these debates. Rather it tends to take for granted the particularity of dynastic trajectories within only slowly changing bureaucratic contexts. Trajectories of State Formation promotes a more critical and connected understanding of state formation in the late medieval Sultanates of Cairo and of the Timurid, Turkmen and Ottoman dynasties. Projecting seven case studies onto a broad canvas of European and West-Asian research, this volume presents a trans-dynastic reconstruction, interpretation and illustration of statist trajectories across fifteenth century Islamic West-Asia. Contributors include: Contributors are: Georg Christ, Kristof D'hulster, Jan Dumolyn, Albrecht Fuess, Dimitri J. Kastritsis, Beatrice Forbes Manz, John L. Meloy, Jo Van Steenbergen, and Patrick Wing."--