Everything is on the Move

The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks

Edited by Stephan Conermann

Book cover: Everything is on the Move

Extent: 353 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Medieval Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2014)

ISBN: 9783847102748

6.3 x 9.25 inches

Price: $94.00

In stock

In this volume, we try to understand the “Mamluk Empire” as a region where several nodes of different networks existed. These networks constitute to a great extent the core of the so-called Mamluk society; they form the basis of the social order. Following concepts refined in the New Area Studies, recent reflections about the “Empire – State”, trajectories in today’s Global History, and the spatial turn, we intend to identify physical and cognitive networks with one or more nodes in Mamluk-controlled territories. In addition to this, one of the most important analytical questions would be to define the role of these networks in Mamluk society.


In this volume, we try to understand the “Mamluk Empire” not as a confined space but as a region where several nodes of different networks existed side-by-side and at the same time. In our opinion, these networks constitute to a great extent the core of the so-called Mamluk society; they form the basis of the social order. Following, in part, concepts refined in the New Area Studies, recent reflections about the phenomenon of the “Empire – State”, trajectories in today’s Global History, and the spatial turn in modern historiography, we intend to identify a number of physical and cognitive networks with one or more nodes in Mamluk-controlled territories. In addition to this, one of the most important analytical questions would be to define the role of these networks in Mamluk society.

  • Edited by Stephan Conermann