Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo

Daisy Livingston is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Durham University. She received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration, Terminology and DatesList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Transcending the ‘Archive Problem’1. The Relationship between Waqf Endowments and ArchivingPart I. Notaries, Qadis and Document Production2. The Document as Archive3. A Mass of DocumentationPart II. The Waqf Archive4. The Waqf Archive of Sultan al-Ghawrī5. The Life of a Waqf ArchivePart III. A Late-Mamluk Archival Landscape6. The Dynamics of Private Property Archiving7. Accumulating Documents Across the Mamluk CapitalClosing RemarksAppendix 1: List of Documents in al-Ghawrī’s Waqf ArchiveAppendix 2: List of Documents in the Qaraite CorpusBibliographyIndex

This book manages superbly both to position the proposed study within the rich and complex literature on the subject and to add carefully presented but extremely important new insights. These will substantially change the way the source corpus of managing paperwork can and will have to be engaged with in the future.