Mamluk Cairo, a crossroads for embassies: studies on diplomacy and diplomatics
In: Islamic history and civilization volume 161
In: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341
In: Middle East and Islamic studies e-books online
In: Collection 2019
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Mamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of Research /Frédéric Bauden -- Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of Research /Malika Dekkiche -- Diplomatic Conventions -- Diplomatics, or Another Way to See the World /Malika Dekkiche -- Strong Letters at the Mamluk Court /Lucian Reinfandt -- Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo /Yehoshua Frenkel -- The Mongols and Their Successors -- Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658–741/1260–1341 /Anne F. Broadbridge -- The Golden Horde and the Mamluks: the Birth of a Diplomatic Set-Up (660–5/1261–7) /Marie Favereau -- Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing? /Reuven Amitai -- Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambition and Ideology during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth Centuries /Hend Gilli-Elewy -- Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sulṭān Aḥmad Jalāyir's Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate /Patrick Wing -- The Timurids, the Turkmens, and the Ottomans -- Niẓām al-Dīn Shāmī's Description of the Syrian Campaign of Tīmūr /Michele Bernardini -- Diplomatic Entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter Datable to 818/1415 /Frédéric Bauden -- Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Sultan Meḥmed II's Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions /Kristof D'hulster -- The Western Islamic Lands -- Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the Last Hope for al-Andalus /Bárbara Boloix Gallardo -- Entre Ifrīqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées /Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi -- Tracking Down the Hafsid Diplomatic Missions All the Way to the Turco-Mamluk Borders (892–6/1487–91) /Lotfi Ben Miled -- Arabia, India, and Africa -- Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries) /Éric Vallet -- "Aggression in the Best of Lands": Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century /John L. Meloy -- Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatābād, and Aḥmadābād during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries /Stephan Conermann and Anna Kollatz -- The Ḥaṭī and the Sultan: Letters and Embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court /Julien Loiseau -- "Peace Be upon Those Who Follow the Right Way": Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the End of the Eighth/Fourteenth Century /Rémi Dewière -- The Latin West -- The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo /Pierre Moukarzel -- In the Name of the Minorities: Lisbon's Muslims as Emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt /Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros -- Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838–78/1435–73: the Accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghrī Birdī /Nicholas Coureas -- Negotiating the Last Mamluk-Venetian Commercial Decree (922–3/1516–7): Commercial Liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the Early Tenth/Sixteenth Century /Gladys Frantz-Murphy.