Title: History and historiography of the Mamluks /
Authors: Little, Donald P.
Publisher: Variorum Reprints,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Mamelukes Historiography.; Islamic Empire History Historiography.; Egypt History Historiography.
Contents: Al-Ṣafadī as biographer of his contemporaries -- The recovery of a lost source for Baḥrī Mamlūk history : Al-Yūsufī's Nuzhat al nāẓir fī sīrat al-Malik al-Nāṣir -- An analysis of the relationship between four Mamlūk chronicles for 737-45 -- The history of Arabia during the Baḥrī Mamlūk period according to three Mamlūk historians -- The founding of Sulṭāniyya : a Mamlūk version -- Notes on Aitamis̆, a Mongol Mamlūk -- The historical and historiographical significance of the detention of Ibn Taymiyya -- Did Ibn Taymiyya have a screw loose? -- Coptic conversion to Islam under the Baḥrī Mamlūks, 692- 755/1293-1354 -- Religion under the Mamlūks -- The significance of the Ḥaram documents for the study of medieval Islamic history -- The Ḥaram documents as sources for the arts and architecture of the Mamlūk period -- Six fourteenth-century purchase deeds for slaves from al-Ḥaram As̆-S̆arīf -- Two fourteenth-century court records from Jerusalem concerning the disposition of slaves by minor -- Relations between Jerusalem and Egypt during the Mamlūk period according to literary and documentary sources.