Mamlukica
Studies on the History and Society of the Mamluk Period / Studien zu Geschichte und Gesellschaft der Mamlukenzeit
By (author) Stephan Conermann Series edited by Stephan Conermann
Hardback (Published)
(June 2013)
ISBN: 9783847101116
6.42 x 9.65 inches
Price: $119.00
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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 as a slave, 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. On this historically unique model of a society, Stephan Conermann has published a series of seminal articles. In this edited volume the reader gets an excellent introduction to some of the central issues of the ongoing research on the Mamluk history and society.
English summary:Once a person starts to study the 250-some years of the Mamluk Era in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), one characteristic of that period stands out immediately – the very unusual polarization of its society. A predominantly Arabic population was dominated by a purely Turkish-born elite of manu-mitted 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 as a slave, 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. On this historically unique model of a society, Stephan Conermann has published a series of seminal articles. In this edited volume the reader gets an excellent introduction to some of the central issues of the ongoing research on the Mamluk history and society. German description: Wer sich mit der gut 250 Jahre andauernden Mamlukenzeit in Agypten und Syrien (1250-1517) zu beschaftigen beginnt, kann recht schnell zumindest ein Charakteristikum dieser Zeit benennen: die ganz ungewohnliche Polarisierung der Gesellschaft. Eine vornehmlich arabische Bevolkerung wurde beherrscht von einer durchweg turkstammigen Elite freigelassener Militarsklaven, die sich durch ein sich selbst auferlegtes Gebot standig zu regenerieren versuchte. Mamluk werden konnte nur ein ausserhalb des islamischen Herrschaftsbereiches als Nichtmuslim frei geborener, dann versklavter, als Sklave nach Agypten verbrachter, zum Islam konvertierter, in die Freiheit entlassener und schliesslich ritterlich ausgebildeter Turke werden. Nur wer diese Bedingungen erfullte war Mitglied der herrschenden Schicht mit allen dazugehorigen politischen, militarischen und wirtschaftlichen Vorrechten. Zu diesem historisch wohl einmaligen Gesellschaftsmodell hat Stephan Conermann eine Reihe von Aufsatzen vorgelegt, die zusammengenommen eine ausgezeichnete Einfuhrung in die verschiedenen Themenbereiche der Mamlukenforschung einfuhren.
- By (author) Stephan Conermann
- Series edited by Stephan Conermann
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