War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-04-10032-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

This volume focusses on the interplay between war and society in the Eastern Mediterranean, in a period which witnessed the Arab conquests, the Seljuk invasion, the Crusades, and the Mongol incursions.
The military aspects of these momentous events have not been fully discussed so far. For the first time this book offers a synthesis of trends in military technology and its effect on society in the period from the Arab conquests to the establishment of an Ottoman hegemony.
War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean provides for medievalists an Oriental context to the military aspects of the Crusades, and for scholars of both Middle Eastern and military history a coherent treatment of an important topic over a long period and covering many different cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lev, Ya'acov

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Abbreviations and Illustrations
Contributors

Introduction 1
1. Arms of the Umayyad Era: Military Technology in a Time of Change -- David Nicolle 9
2. Some Administrative, Military and Socio-Political Aspects of Early Muslim Egypt -- Khalil 'Athamina 101
3. Regime, Army and Society in Medieval Egypt, 9th-12th Centuries -- Yaacov Lev 115
4. Personal Adversities of Jews during the Period of the Fatimid Wars in Eleventh Century Palestine -- Elinoar Bareket 153
5. Technology and Success of the First Crusade -- John France 163
6. Zwischen Joseph-Legende und Mahdi-Erwartung: Erfolge und Ziele Sultan Saladins im Spiegel zeitgenossicher Dichtung und Weissagung -- Hannes Mohring 177
7. Kurdes et Turcs dans l'armee ayyoubide de Syrie du Nord -- Anne-Marie Edde 225
8. The Impact of the Crusades on Rural Society and Religious Endowments: The Case of Medieval Syria (Bilad al-Sham) -- Yehoshua Frenkel 237
9. Mongol Society and Military in the Middle East: Antecedents and Adaptations -- John Masson Smith, Jr. 249
10. The Mamluk Officer Class During the Reign of Sultan Baybars -- Reuven Amitai-Preiss 267
11. Les dernieres Batailles du grand emir Yasbak min Mahdi -- Bernadette Martel-Thoumian 301
12. Gunpowder Weapons at the Siege of Constantinople, 1453 -- Kelly DeVries 343
13. Ottoman Military Technology: the Metallurgy of Turkish Armour -- Alan Williams 363
14. A Note on Hudna: Peace Making in Islam -- Gideon Weigert 399

Index 407

Über Autor(innen)

Yaacov Lev, Ph.D., University of Manchester, is Lecturer in Islamic medieval history at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Recent publications include Persecutions and Conversion to Islam in Eleventh-Century Egypt (1988), and The Suppression of Crime, the Supervision of Markets, and Urban Society in the Egyptian Capital during the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (1988).