Order Out of Chaos

Patronage, Conflict and Mamluk Socio-Political Culture, 1341-1382
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15261-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 212 Seiten, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

This book offers an analysis of the Syro-Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate's political culture, focusing on the period between 1341 and 1382 CE, when twelve descendants of the regime's most successful sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qalawun reigned and the military were more deeply involved in the political process than ever.
The book consists of three chapters, each of which discusses one major component of this period's political culture: political institutions, political relationships engendering households and networks, and the dynamics of the period's many socio-political conflicts.
This book marks an important breakthrough in Mamluk studies, offering both insights into the history of a long-neglected period and new models of analysis that call for wider application in the field of Mamluk socio-political history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steenbergen, Jo van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations-Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter One Legitimate Power
a. The socio-political elite
b. The Sultanate
c. The Amirate
d. Conclusion
Chapter Two Effective Power
a. Observations
b. Patrons and Clients
c. Kinship
d. Households and Networks
e. Networks of Effective Power between 1341 and 1382
Chapter Three Struggle for Power
a. Observations
b. Motives
c. Strategies
d. Order out of Chaos: 1341–1382 146
Conclusion
Appendix 1: The Qalawunid Sultanate, 1279–1382
Appendix 2: Effective Power holders between 1341 and 1382
Appendix 3: Struggle for Power between 1341 and 1382
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jo Van Steenbergen, Ph.D. (2003) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, lectures in Arabic and Middle East History at the University of St Andrews and has published several articles on Mamluk institutional and political history.