Yuval Ben-Bassat, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. He has published extensively on Greater Syria during the late Ottoman period, including Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine (Tauris 2013).

• A Note on TransliterationList of Pictures and Illustrations AcknowledgmentsProfessor Amalia Levanoni’s Contribution to the Field of Mamluk Studies Michael WinterIntroductionYuval Ben-BassatA. Social and Cultural Issues1.Carl Petry“Already Rich? Yet ‘Greed Deranged Him’: Elite Status and Criminal Complicity in the Mamluk Sultanate”2.Koby Yosef “Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the ‘Mamlūk Family’”3.Limor Yungman “Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste: The Mamluk Case”4.Bernadette Martel-Thoumian“DU SANG ET DES LARMES: LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE D’AṢALBĀY AL-JARKASIYYA (m. en 1509)” 5.Daisuke Igarashi“The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era”B. Women in Mamluk Society 6.Yaakov Lev“Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities”7.Yehoshua Frenkel“Slave Girls and Learned Teachers: Women in Mamluk Sources” 8.Boaz Shoshan “On Marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500”C.Literary and Poetical Genres9. Li Guo“Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling: Ibn Taghrībirdī on the Yalbughā Affair”10. Frédéric Bauden“Maqriziana XIII: An Exchange of Correspondence Between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī”11. Michael Winter“Sultan Selīm’s Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliyā Ҁelebi’s Seyāḥatnāme” D.The Politics of Material Culture 12. Warren Schultz “Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence”13. Hana Taragan“Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia: Turbat al-Kubakiyya in the Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem (688/1289)”14. Bethany J. Walker“The Struggle over Water: Evaluating the ‘Water Culture’ of Syrian Peasants under Mamluk Rule” 15. Élise Franssen“What was there in a Mamluk Amīr’s Library? Evidence from a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript” E.Regional and Local Politics 16. Reuven Amitai“Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus”17. Joseph Drory“Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son: Some Glimpses into the Career of Ṭashtamur Ḥummuṣ Akhḍar”BibliographyIndex

"In my view this volume offers a nice entry point into the field of Mamlūk history. It offers a taster of the range of perspectives that have and are being taken by scholars in the field, as well as a fine introduction to a number of its historical sources." - Daisy Livingston, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019) "... this collection of articles is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Mamlūks. With its combination of articles by both well-established scholars as well as relative newcomers to the discipline, it provides an excellent, remarkably rich and multifaceted cross section of the state of the art in the burgeoning field of Mamlūk history." - Laurenz Kern, Freie Universität Berlin, in: Die Welt Des Islams 59 (2019) "... the volume constitutes an important read for scholars and students of the Mamluk Period as well as of the respective fields of inquiry beyond that field. This is also true for further subjects such as numismatics, manuscript studies, institutional history, or food studies." - Torsten Wollina, Orient-Institut Beirut, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95/2 (2018) "In their remarkable variety, these seventeen papers nicely illustrate the different terrains of scholarship on which Amalia Levanoni has been operating since the 1980s. Whereas some of them continue to situate themselves comfortably in longstanding research traditions and paradigms, quite a few simultaneously demonstrate the expanding range of research perspectives - including social theory, literary criticism, codicology, anthropology and archaeology - that have started to transform Mamluk studies into an interdisciplinary field by default. Beyond the individual value of quite a few of the papers in this volume, the latter general observation certainly also adds to the importance of this volume as a whole." - Jo Van Steenbergen, University of Gent, in: English Historical Review 134/569 (2019)

Yuval Ben-Bassat, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. He has published extensively on Greater Syria during the late Ottoman period, including Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine (Tauris 2013).

• A Note on TransliterationList of Pictures and Illustrations AcknowledgmentsProfessor Amalia Levanoni’s Contribution to the Field of Mamluk Studies Michael WinterIntroductionYuval Ben-BassatA. Social and Cultural Issues1.Carl Petry“Already Rich? Yet ‘Greed Deranged Him’: Elite Status and Criminal Complicity in the Mamluk Sultanate”2.Koby Yosef “Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the ‘Mamlūk Family’”3.Limor Yungman “Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste: The Mamluk Case”4.Bernadette Martel-Thoumian“DU SANG ET DES LARMES: LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE D’AṢALBĀY AL-JARKASIYYA (m. en 1509)” 5.Daisuke Igarashi“The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era”B. Women in Mamluk Society 6.Yaakov Lev“Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities”7.Yehoshua Frenkel“Slave Girls and Learned Teachers: Women in Mamluk Sources” 8.Boaz Shoshan “On Marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500”C.Literary and Poetical Genres9. Li Guo“Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling: Ibn Taghrībirdī on the Yalbughā Affair”10. Frédéric Bauden“Maqriziana XIII: An Exchange of Correspondence Between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī”11. Michael Winter“Sultan Selīm’s Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliyā Ҁelebi’s Seyāḥatnāme” D.The Politics of Material Culture 12. Warren Schultz “Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence”13. Hana Taragan“Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia: Turbat al-Kubakiyya in the Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem (688/1289)”14. Bethany J. Walker“The Struggle over Water: Evaluating the ‘Water Culture’ of Syrian Peasants under Mamluk Rule” 15. Élise Franssen“What was there in a Mamluk Amīr’s Library? Evidence from a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript” E.Regional and Local Politics 16. Reuven Amitai“Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus”17. Joseph Drory“Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son: Some Glimpses into the Career of Ṭashtamur Ḥummuṣ Akhḍar”BibliographyIndex

"In my view this volume offers a nice entry point into the field of Mamlūk history. It offers a taster of the range of perspectives that have and are being taken by scholars in the field, as well as a fine introduction to a number of its historical sources." - Daisy Livingston, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019) "... this collection of articles is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Mamlūks. With its combination of articles by both well-established scholars as well as relative newcomers to the discipline, it provides an excellent, remarkably rich and multifaceted cross section of the state of the art in the burgeoning field of Mamlūk history." - Laurenz Kern, Freie Universität Berlin, in: Die Welt Des Islams 59 (2019) "... the volume constitutes an important read for scholars and students of the Mamluk Period as well as of the respective fields of inquiry beyond that field. This is also true for further subjects such as numismatics, manuscript studies, institutional history, or food studies." - Torsten Wollina, Orient-Institut Beirut, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95/2 (2018) "In their remarkable variety, these seventeen papers nicely illustrate the different terrains of scholarship on which Amalia Levanoni has been operating since the 1980s. Whereas some of them continue to situate themselves comfortably in longstanding research traditions and paradigms, quite a few simultaneously demonstrate the expanding range of research perspectives - including social theory, literary criticism, codicology, anthropology and archaeology - that have started to transform Mamluk studies into an interdisciplinary field by default. Beyond the individual value of quite a few of the papers in this volume, the latter general observation certainly also adds to the importance of this volume as a whole." - Jo Van Steenbergen, University of Gent, in: English Historical Review 134/569 (2019)

Yuval Ben-Bassat, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. He has published extensively on Greater Syria during the late Ottoman period, including Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine (Tauris 2013).

• A Note on TransliterationList of Pictures and Illustrations AcknowledgmentsProfessor Amalia Levanoni’s Contribution to the Field of Mamluk Studies Michael WinterIntroductionYuval Ben-BassatA. Social and Cultural Issues1.Carl Petry“Already Rich? Yet ‘Greed Deranged Him’: Elite Status and Criminal Complicity in the Mamluk Sultanate”2.Koby Yosef “Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the ‘Mamlūk Family’”3.Limor Yungman “Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste: The Mamluk Case”4.Bernadette Martel-Thoumian“DU SANG ET DES LARMES: LE DESTIN TRAGIQUE D’AṢALBĀY AL-JARKASIYYA (m. en 1509)” 5.Daisuke Igarashi“The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era”B. Women in Mamluk Society 6.Yaakov Lev“Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities”7.Yehoshua Frenkel“Slave Girls and Learned Teachers: Women in Mamluk Sources” 8.Boaz Shoshan “On Marriage in Damascus, 1480-1500”C.Literary and Poetical Genres9. Li Guo“Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling: Ibn Taghrībirdī on the Yalbughā Affair”10. Frédéric Bauden“Maqriziana XIII: An Exchange of Correspondence Between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī”11. Michael Winter“Sultan Selīm’s Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to Evliyā Ҁelebi’s Seyāḥatnāme” D.The Politics of Material Culture 12. Warren Schultz “Mamluk Coins, Mamluk Politics and the Limits of the Numismatic Evidence”13. Hana Taragan“Mamluk Patronage, Crusader Spolia: Turbat al-Kubakiyya in the Mamilla Cemetery, Jerusalem (688/1289)”14. Bethany J. Walker“The Struggle over Water: Evaluating the ‘Water Culture’ of Syrian Peasants under Mamluk Rule” 15. Élise Franssen“What was there in a Mamluk Amīr’s Library? Evidence from a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript” E.Regional and Local Politics 16. Reuven Amitai“Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus”17. Joseph Drory“Favored by the Sultan, Disfavored by his Son: Some Glimpses into the Career of Ṭashtamur Ḥummuṣ Akhḍar”BibliographyIndex

"In my view this volume offers a nice entry point into the field of Mamlūk history. It offers a taster of the range of perspectives that have and are being taken by scholars in the field, as well as a fine introduction to a number of its historical sources." - Daisy Livingston, in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019) "... this collection of articles is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Mamlūks. With its combination of articles by both well-established scholars as well as relative newcomers to the discipline, it provides an excellent, remarkably rich and multifaceted cross section of the state of the art in the burgeoning field of Mamlūk history." - Laurenz Kern, Freie Universität Berlin, in: Die Welt Des Islams 59 (2019) "... the volume constitutes an important read for scholars and students of the Mamluk Period as well as of the respective fields of inquiry beyond that field. This is also true for further subjects such as numismatics, manuscript studies, institutional history, or food studies." - Torsten Wollina, Orient-Institut Beirut, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95/2 (2018) "In their remarkable variety, these seventeen papers nicely illustrate the different terrains of scholarship on which Amalia Levanoni has been operating since the 1980s. Whereas some of them continue to situate themselves comfortably in longstanding research traditions and paradigms, quite a few simultaneously demonstrate the expanding range of research perspectives - including social theory, literary criticism, codicology, anthropology and archaeology - that have started to transform Mamluk studies into an interdisciplinary field by default. Beyond the individual value of quite a few of the papers in this volume, the latter general observation certainly also adds to the importance of this volume as a whole." - Jo Van Steenbergen, University of Gent, in: English Historical Review 134/569 (2019)