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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
[2020], 2020
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| Series: | Rulers & elites
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Includes bibliographic references and index