Mamluk and Ottoman societies
Subtitle: studies in honour of Michael Winter
By: edited by Ami Ayalon and David J. Wasserstein.
Contributors: Winter, Michael, 1934-; Ayalon, Ami.; Wasserstein, David.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Islamic Empire -- History -- 1258-1517.; Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517.; Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882; Middle East -- History -- 1517-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Daphna Ephrat: Sufism and sanctity: the genesis of the Wali Allah in Mamluk Jerusalem and Hebron; value: Joseph Drory: the prince who favored the desert: fragmentary biography of al-Nasir Ahmad (d. 745/1344); value: Amnon Cohen: al-Nabi Musa,  an Ottoman festival (mawsim) resurrected?; value: Reuven Amitai: some remarks on the inscription of Baybars at Maqam Nabi Musa; value: Hanna Taragan: sign of the times: reusing the past in Baybars's architecture in Palestine; value: Donald P. Little: a fourteenth-century Jerusalem court record of a divorce hearing: a case study; value: Carl F. Petry: the hoax of the miraculous speaking wall: criminal investigation in Mamluk Cairo; value: Amalia Levanoni: Awlad al-Nas in the Mamluk army during the Bahri period; value: Boaz Shoshan: popular Sufi sermons in late Mamluk Egypt; value: Miri Shefer: physicians in Mamluk and Ottoman courts; value: Amy Singer: Evliya Çelebi on Imarets; value: Minna Rozen and Benjamin Arbel: great fire in the metropolis: the case of the Istanbul conflagration of 1569 and its description by Marcantonio Barbaro; value: Rachel Milstein: Futuh-i Haramayn: sixteenth-century illustrations of the hajj route; value: Jane Athaway: the forgotten province: a prelude to the Ottoman era in Yemen; value: Gabriel Warburg: Islam in the Sudan under the Funj and the Ottomans; value: Daniel Crecelius: observations on some religious institutions in Damiette and Faraskur in the eighteenth century; value: Ursula Wokoeck: the expropriation of the pasha's peasants.