Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies

Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38462-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 161, 882 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1406 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy.

With contributions by Frédéric Bauden, Lotfi Ben Miled, Michele Bernardini, Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, Anne F. Broadbridge, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Stephan Conermann, Nicholas Coureas, Malika Dekkiche, Rémi Dewière, Kristof D’hulster, Marie Favereau, Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Yehoshua Frenkel, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Ludvik Kalus, Anna Kollatz, Julien Loiseau, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, John L. Meloy, Pierre Moukarzel, Lucian Reinfandt, Alessandro Rizzo, Éric Vallet, Valentina Vezzoli and Patrick Wing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bauden, Frédéric

Dekkiche, Malika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations
Charts, Figures, and Tables
Notes on Contributors

1 Mamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of Research
Frédéric Bauden

2 Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of Research
Malika Dekkiche

Part 1 Diplomatic Conventions

3 Diplomatics, or Another Way to See the World
Malika Dekkiche

4 Strong Letters at the Mamluk Court
Lucian Reinfandt

5 Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo
Yehoshua Frenkel

Part 2 The Mongols and Their Successors

6 Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658–741/1260–1341
Anne F. Broadbridge

7 The Golden Horde and the Mamluks: the Birth of a Diplomatic Set-Up (660–5/1261–7)
Marie Favereau

8 Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing?
Reuven Amitai

9 Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambitions and Ideologies during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries
Hend Gilli-Elewy

10 Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sul?an A?mad Jalayir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate
Patrick Wing

Part 3 The Timurids, the Turkmens, and the Ottomans

11 Ni?am al-Din Shami’s Description of the Syrian Campaign of Timur
Michele Bernardini

12 Diplomatic Entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter Datable to 818/1415
Frédéric Bauden

13 Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Sultan Me?med II’s Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions
Kristof D’hulster

Part 4 The Western Islamic Lands

14 Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the Last Hope for al-Andalus
Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo

15 Entre Ifriqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées
Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi

16 Tracking Down the Hafsid Diplomatic Missions All the Way to the Turco-Mamluk Borders (892–6/1487–91)
Lotfi Ben Miled

Part 5 Arabia, India, and Africa

17 Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)
Éric Vallet

18 “Aggression in the Best of Lands”: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century
John L. Meloy

19 Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatabad, and A?madabad during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries
Stephan Conermann and Anna Kollatz

20 The ?a?i and the Sultan: Letters and Embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court
Julien Loiseau

21 “Peace Be upon Those Who Follow the Right Way”: Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the End of the Eighth/Fourteenth Century
Rémi Dewière

Part 6 The Latin West

22 The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo
Pierre Moukarzel

23 In the Name of the Minorities: Lisbon’s Muslims as Emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt
Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros

24 Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838–78/1435–73: the Accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghri Birdi
Nicholas Coureas

25 Negotiating the Last Mamluk-Venetian Commercial Decree (922–3/1516–7): Commercial Liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the Early Tenth/Sixteenth Century
Gladys Frantz-Murphy

26 Three Mamluk Letters Concerning the Florentine Trade in Egypt and Syria: a New Interpretation
Alessandro Rizzo

Part 7 Material Culture

27 Écritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des cérémonies officielles à l’ époque mamelouke
Ludvik Kalus

28 Precious Objects for Eminent Guests: the Use of Chinese Ceramics in Mamluk Cairo: the Fustat Ceramic Collection from The Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels)
Valentina Vezzoli

Indexes

Über Autor(innen)

Frédéric Bauden, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Liège. His research focuses on Mamluk historiography, diplomatics, and codicology. He is the editor of the bookseries Bibliotheca Maqriziana (Leiden: Brill). He is completing a book on al-Maqri¯zi¯’s collection of opuscules.

Malika Dekkiche, Ph.D. (2011), is Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on premodern Islamic diplomacy, state formation, religious patronage and more generally on the history of the Mamluk sultanate, Timurid and Turkmen dynasties.