An engaging and accessible survey of the Mamluk Sultanate which positions the realm within the development of comparative political systems from a global perspe

This volume is a collection of studies by leading historians on central aspects of the Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and of Ottoman Egypt (16th-

In Europe the Mamluks of Egypt are remembered as so-called 'Slave Kings' who drove out the Crusaders from the Holy Land; but they were far more than that. Thoug

This history of Mamluk architecture spans three centuries and examines the monuments of the Mamluks in their social, political and urban context, during the per

This volume is dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production