| ISBN |
9042926317 (hbk.) |
| 9789042926318 (hbk.) |
| Title |
Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk eras : proceedings of the 16th, 17th and 18th international colloquium organized at Ghent University in May 2007, 2008 and 2009 / U. Vermeulen, K. D'Hulster and J van Steenbergen (eds.) |
| Publisher |
Leuven : Peeters, 2013 |
| Physical desc. |
xvi, 561 p. ; ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 223 |
| Note |
Volume 7 of the proceedings of the international Colloquium on the History of Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras (CHESFAME). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Fatimids. Rebellion and the rise of the Fatimids: Fatimid foundational narratives and 'Abbasid counter-narratives / C.D. Baker -- The execution of Ibn Badus / M. Brett -- Translation / M. Brett -- Between Castrum and Medina: a preliminary note on spatial organisation and urban development in medieval Aqaba / K. Damgaard -- Finding Fatimid Jordan: a reinterpretation of Aylah's 'Fatimid residence' / K. Damgaard -- Mukarram und die Sulayhidische restauration im Jemen / H. Halm -- A philosophical response from Fatimid Egypt on leadership in Islam / A.R. Lalani -- Ismaili relectures of Christianity: Ikhwan al-Safa, al-Mu'ayyad al-Shirazi, Naser-e Khosrow / L. Richter-Bernburg -- La poésie judéo-arabe de Mosheh Dar'i / A. Schippers -- A bouquet of Arabic and Hebrew flowers: the Judaeo-Arabic poem headings in Moses Dar'i's diwan / J. Yeshaya -- Ayyubids, Crusaders (& Seljuqs). Pierre de Blois et la Légende dorée de Renaud de Chatillon / P.-V. Claverie -- La politique orientale du Saint-Siège à l'avènement d'Honorius III (1216) / P.-V. Claverie -- Über das wirken armenischer bauhandwerker im frühen mittelalter / H. Hanisch -- Über di Annäherungshindernisse im armenischen wehrbau in Kilikien and seinen Randgebieten / H. Hanisch -- Mamluks. Commercial relations between Genoese Famagusta and the Mamluk sultanate, 1374-1464 / N. Coureas -- Losing the war but winning the peace: Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt in the fifteenth century / N. Coureas -- The tribute paid to the Mamluk sultanate, 1426-1517: the perspective from Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus / N. Coureas -- Balawi's impressions of Palestine / J. Drory -- Maqrizi in Durar al-'uqud with regard to Timur Leng / J. Drory -- Prières, reliques et crue du Nil à l'époque mamelouke / J.-Ch. Ducène -- Narratives of animals in Mamluk sources / Y. Frenkel -- Tamim al-Dari and Hebron during the Mamluk period / Y. Frenkel -- The folded cross vault in Mamluk Jerusalem and its Anatolian origin / S. Laor-Sirak -- Eliyahu Ashtor (1914-1987) and the history of the Mamluk sultanate / Y. Lev -- On Hellenistic medicine, Christian fasting, and nomadic diet: why the medieval Cairenes did not turn vegetarian / P. Lewicka -- Les Qubbat al-Nasr de Damas et de ses environs à l'époque mamlouke / J.-M. Mouton & B. Dayoub -- The Armenian kingdom and the Near East: Het'um of Korykos and the Flor des estoires de la terre d'Orient / A. Stewart -- The sultan, the duke and the leopard: the embassy of Giangaleazzo Visconti of Milan to Sultan Barquq. |
| Language Note |
English, French, and German |
| Corporate name |
Rijksuniversiteit te Gent -- Congresses |
| Subject |
Fatimites -- Congresses |
| Ayyubids -- Congresses |
| Mamelukes -- Congresses |
| Egypt -- History -- 640-1250 -- Congresses |
| Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517 -- Congresses |
| Syria -- History -- 750-1260 -- Congresses |
| Syria -- History -- 1260-1516 -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Vermeulen, Urbain 1940- ed. |
| Hulster, K. d’ (Kristof d’) ed. |
| Steenbergen, J. van ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Rijksuniversiteit te Gent |
