Title & Author:

The arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria : evolution and impact / Doris Behrens-Abouseif (ed.).

Publication:

Goettingen : V & R unipress : Bonn University Press, ©2012.

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Mamluk studies ; v. 1

Notes:
Based on the conference "The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria" held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.
Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: An Introduction / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- In Search of a Triumphant Image: the Experimental Quality of Early Mamluk Art / Nasser Rabbat -- Louvre Kursi: Function and Meaning of Mamluk Stands / Carine Juvin -- Mosque Lamps and Enamelled Glass: Getting the Dates Right / Rachel Ward -- Ceramics in the Mamluk Empire: An Overview / Roland-Pierre Gayraud -- Mongol Influences on Mamluk Ceramics in the Fourteenth Century / Rosalind A. Wade Haddon -- Late Mamluk Carpets: Some New Observations / Jon Thompson -- Mamluk Monument Reconstructed: an Architectural History of the Mosque and Mausoleum of Tankiz al-Nasiri in Damascus / Ellen Kenney -- James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak, Cairo / Bernard O'Kane -- City of Two Hundred Mosques: Friday Worship and its Spread in the Monuments of Mamluk Cairo / Julien Loiseau -- Glass Mosaics in a Royal Mamluk Hall: Context, Content, and Interpretation / Mamdouh Mohamed Sakr -- Inside Out: The Mamluk Throne Hall in Aleppo / Julia Gonnella -- Court Workshops under the Bahri Mamluks / J. M. Rogers -- Two Bibliophile Mamluk Emirs: Qansuh the Master of the Stables and Yashbak the Secretary / Zeren Tanindi -- Mamluk Influences on the Architecture of the Anatolian Emirates / Mehmed Baha Tanman -- Mamluk Perceptions of Foreign Arts / Doris Behrens-Abouseif.

Summary:

Mamluk Studies" is the first series that is exclusively dedicated to the history, culture and society of the Mamluk Era (1250-1517). It contains source editions, monographs, collections of articles, and conference proceedings in English, French, and German. The Mamluk Empire is a historically unique model of a society. A predominantly Arabic population was dominated by a purely Turkish-born elite of manumitted military slaves who sought to regenerate themselves continuously through a self-imposed fiat. The only person who could become a Mamluk was a Turk who had been born free outside the Islamic territories as a non-Muslim, then enslaved, brought to Egypt, converted to Islam, freed, and finally, trained as a warrior. Only those who met these prerequisites were members of the ruling stratum with all the concomitant political, military, and economic advantages. Patrons and companions provided the individual, rootless Mamluk with a place and support in society.

ISBN:

9783899719154
3899719158

Subject:

Art, Mameluke Egypt.
Art, Mameluke Syria.
Architecture, Mameluke Egypt.
Architecture, Mameluke Syria.
Islamic art Egypt.
Islamic art Syria.
Architecture mamelouk.
Architecture mamelouk Syrie.
Art islamique Égypte.
Art islamique Syrie.
Architecture, Mameluke.
Art, Mameluke.
Islamic art.
Egypt History 1250-1517.
Syria History 1260-1516.
Égypte Histoire 1250-1517.
Syrie Histoire 1260-1516.
Egypt.
Syria.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris.
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies.
Mamluk studies ; v. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278320
Call No.: BIB 213932
Status: Available