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Mamlūks and Crusaders: men of the sword and men of the pen

Mamlūks and Crusaders: men of the sword and men of the pen
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ISBN 9781409407751 (hbk.)
Author Irwin, Robert 1946-
Title Mamlūks and Crusaders : men of the sword and men of the pen / [by] Robert Irwin
Publisher Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, 2010
Physical desc. 1 v. (various pagings) ; 24 cm.
Series Collected studies CS955
Note Variorum collected studies series
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Iqṭāʻ and the end of the Crusader states -- The supply of money and the direction of trade in thirteenth-century Syria -- The Mamlūk conquest of the county of Tripoli -- Egypt, Syria and their trading partners, 1450-1550 -- Factions in medieval Egypt -- The image of the Byzantine and the Frank in Arab popular literature of the late Middle Ages -- How many miles to Babylon? the Devise des chemins de Babiloine redated -- Toynbee and Ibn Khaldun -- Eating horses and drinking mare's milk -- Usamah ibn Munqidh, an Arab-Syrian gentleman at the time of the crusades reconsidered -- The impact of the early crusades on the Muslim world -- What the partridge told the eagle: a neglected Arabic source on Chinggis Khan and the early history of the Mongols -- Under western eyes: a history of Mamlūk studies -- ʻAlī al-Baghdādī and the joy of Mamlūk sex -- The privatisation of 'justice' under the Circassian Mamlūks -- Mamlūk literature -- Orientalism and the early development of crusader studies -- Tribal feuding and Mamlūk factions in medieval Syria -- Al-Maqrīzī and Ibn Khaldūn, historians of the unseen -- Gunpowder and firearms in the Mamlūk sultanate reconsidered -- Futuwwa: chivalry and gangsterism in medieval Cairo -- Ibn Zunbul and the romance of history -- The political thinking of the 'virtuous ruler', Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī.
Subject Mamelukes
Crusades
Islamic Empire -- History -- 750-1258
Islamic Empire -- History -- 1258-1517
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