Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk Eras: Proceedings of the 14th and 15th international colloquium [sic] organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 2005 and May 2006

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk Eras: Proceedings of the 14th and 15th international colloquium [sic] organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 2005 and May 2006 PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9789068316834
Category : Ayyubids
Languages : de
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Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies PDF Author: Frédéric Bauden
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004384634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 909

Book Description
Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies gathers twenty-eight essays that offer the most up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers.

Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History

Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History PDF Author: Yuval Ben-Bassat
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004345051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
This volume contains seventeen essays on the Mamluk Sultanate written by leading historians of this period, and discusses social and cultural issues, women in Mamluk society, literary and poetic genres, the politics of material culture, and regional and local politics.

Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia PDF Author: A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule

Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule PDF Author: Amalia Levanoni
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
In this volume, twelve essays by leading scholars of Mamluk history provide an informative reading and insightful analysis of the political, social and economic systems of Egypt and Syria under Mamluk rule (125-1517).

Devotional Cross-Roads

Devotional Cross-Roads PDF Author: Hedwig Röckelein
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
ISBN: 386395372X
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
The collection of essays presented in “Devotional Cross-Roads: Practicing Love of God in Medieval Gaul, Jerusalem, and Saxony” investigates test case witnesses of Christian devotion and patronage from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, set in and between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, as well as Gaul and the regions north of the Alps. Devotional practice and love of God refer to people – mostly from the lay and religious elite –, ideas, copies of texts, images, and material objects, such as relics and reliquaries. The wide geographic borders and time span are used here to illustrate a broad picture composed around questions of worship, identity, religious affiliation and gender. Among the diversity of cases, the studies presented in this volume exemplify recurring themes, which occupied the Christian believer, such as the veneration of the Cross, translation of architecture, pilgrimage and patronage, emergence of iconography and devotional patterns. These essays are representing the research results of the project “Practicing Love of God: Comparing Women’s and Men’s Practice in Medieval Saxony” guided by the art historian Galit Noga-Banai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the historian Hedwig Röckelein, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. This project was running from 2013 to 2018 within the Niedersachsen-Israeli Program and financed by the State of Lower Saxony.

New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology

New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology PDF Author: Katsuyuki Okamura
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781461403418
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Since its very beginning, archaeology has in many senses always related to a much wider constituency than just archaeologists. This relationship between archaeology and the public has often been overlooked and constantly changes. Public archaeology, as a field of research and practice, has been developing since the 1970s in English-speaking countries, particularly in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and is today beginning to spread to other parts of the world. Global expansion of public archaeology comes with the recognition of the need for a careful understanding of local contexts, particularly the culture and socio-political climate. This volume critically examines the current theories and practices of public archaeology through relevant case studies from different regions throughout the world, including: Japan, China, South Korea, New Caledonia, South Africa, Senegal, Jordon, Italy, Peru, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. These case studies are examined from a wide variety of theoretical contexts, to provide a thorough and comprehensive guide to the state of public archaeology today, as well as implications for its future. As the theory and practice of public archaeology continues to change and grow, archaeology’s relationship with the broader community needs to be critically and openly examined. The contributions in this wide-ranging work are a key source of information for anyone practicing or studying archaeology in a public context.

Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East

Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East PDF Author: Yaacov Lev
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004476156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
This volume focuses on the interplay between urban society and material culture in the medieval and Ottoman Middle East. The history of Jerusalem in the middle ages is discussed by a number of papers as well as Mamluk Tripoli and the urban history of Palestine during the Crusades. The multi-role of the cadi in the Muslim city is illuminated by two studies cases concerning the Fatimid and Mamluk periods. Three aspects of material culture; the production and spread of paper, textiles and the trade in medicinal substances also are dealt with.

'Otherness' in Space and Architecture

'Otherness' in Space and Architecture PDF Author: Maria Portmann
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034335065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
This conference proceeding (Sessions on "Otherness in Space and Architecture", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 2017 and 2018) is a compilation of articles written by both young and senior scholars, who are working on the question of the 'self' and the 'other' in Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultures. The articles examine how material, 'oriental' objects and knowledge originating in non-Western communities helped building and strengthening the identity of Iberia's, southern France and northern Italian nobility and its lineages. It is shown how, in the perception of Christians, the public image of Jews and Moslems became constructed as that of adversaries, while their cultural knowledge, at the same time, would be integrated into Christian culture in a paradox manner, in which the 'self' necessarily depends on the 'other' and how visual tensions in art and space have been used as symbols of power.

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras PDF Author: Urbain Vermeulen
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789068316834
Category : Ayyubids
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
Each volume deals with a wide variety of scholarly subjects, all revolving around the central theme of Syro-Egypt's high and late medieval history. Topics dealt with include archaeology, architecture, codicology, economic, political, and religious history, as well as belles-lettres.