Egypt and Syria Under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and Cultural Aspects

Protest Songs from the Streets of Mamluk Cities / Li Gou -- Travails of Prohibition : Suppression of Alcohol Use in the Mamluk Sultanate / Carl F. Petry -- Europeans and Ottomans in the Mamluk Sultanate : Notes on Terminology and Sources / Yaacov Lev -- The Names of the Mamlūks : Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Solidarity in the Mamluk Sultanate (648-922/1250-1517) / Koby Yosef -- Nomen Est Omen : David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the Reign of the Turks / Jo Van Steenbergen -- A High Officer and His Reward : The Public Activity of a Commander of the Sultan's Arms Depot in the Early Fourteenth Century / Joseph Drory -- Ikhwāniyyāt Letters in the Mamluk Period : A Document (Muṭāla'a) Issued by al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh's Chancery and a Contribution to Mamluk Diplomatics / Frédéric Bauden -- Grain, Textiles, and Demand Elasticity in Late Mamluk Egypt : A Preliminary Sketch / Stuart Borsch --The Management of Water in Fourteenth-Century Damascus / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Urban Water Management in the Medieval Middle East : The Case of Mamluk Cairo / Amalia Levanoni -- Waqf as a Means of Securing Financial Assets : The "Self-Benefiting Waqf" in Mamluk Egypt and Syria / Daisuke Igarashi -- Handlist of Stations of the Ayyubid and Mamluk Communication Systems / Kurt Franz.
ISBN : 9789004459519