In the Sultan's Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh Al-Ghawrī (R. 1501-1516) (2 Vols)

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43576-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 169, 1302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2473 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Christian Mauder’s In the Sultan’s Salon builds on his award-winning research and constitutes the first detailed study of the Egyptian court culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). Based mainly on understudied Arabic manuscript sources describing the learned salons of the Mamluk Sultan al-Ghawri, In the Sultan’s Salon presents the first theoretical conceptualization of the term “court” that can be fruitfully applied to premodern Islamic societies. It uses this conceptualization to demonstrate that al-Ghawri’s court functioned as a transregionally interconnected center of dynamic intellectual exchange, theological debate, and performance of rule that triggered novel developments in Islamic scholarly, religious, and political culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mauder, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Tables, Maps and Figures

Note on Transliteration, Style and Periodization

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 Topics and Research Questions

1.2 What Is a Court? Theoretical and Terminological Considerations

2 Historical Context and State of Research

2.1 Historical Context: The Standard Narrative

2.2 State of Research

3 Arabic, Turkic and Other Sources

3.1 Arabic Accounts of al-Ghawri’s majalis

3.2 Other Arabic Sources

3.3 Turkic Sources

3.4 Sources in European Languages

3.5 Material and Epigraphic Sources

3.6 Synopsis of Sources Utilized

4 Learning and the Transmission of Knowledge at al-Ghawri’s Court

4.1 Al-Ghawri’s majalis as Historical Events

4.2 The Topics of al-Ghawri’s majalis

4.3 Al-Ghawri’s majalis as Salons

4.4 Other Educational and Scholarly Activities at al-Ghawri’s Court

4.5 Courtly Education and Scholarship in Its Late Mamluk Context

5 Religious Life at al-Ghawri’s Court

5.1 Events, Influences, and Topics of Religious Life at the Sultan’s Court

5.2 The Sultan’s Role in Religious Life

5.3 The Significance of Religious Communication at al-Ghawri’s Court

List of Tables, Maps and Figures

6 Rulership, Representation, and Legitimation of Rule at al-Ghawri’s Court

6.1 The Crisis of Late Mamluk Legitimacy

6.2 Rulership and Political Theory in the majalis and at al-Ghawri’s Court

6.3 Communicative Strategies of Courtly Representation and Legitimation of Rule

6.4 The Political Communication at al-Ghawri’s Court between Tradition and Innovation

7 Conclusion

7.1 Summary

7.2 Research Results and Outlook

Appendix 1: Works Cited in the Accounts of al-Ghawri’s majalis

Appendix 2: Participants in al-Ghawri’s majalis

Appendix 3: Parallel Passages in the Accounts of al-Ghawri’s majalis

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Mauder, Ph.D. (2017), University of Göttingen, is Associate Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen. His numerous publications on the religious, intellectual, and cultural history of the Islamic world include the monograph Gelehrte Krieger: Die Mamluken als Träger arabischsprachiger Bildung nach al-Safadi, al-Maqrizi und weiteren Quellen (Olms, 2012).