| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 349-368 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Oriente Moderno |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I - This research was supported by a grant from the G.I.F., the German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development. I am grateful to Dr. Christoph Cluse and Ms. Annika Stello, M.A., both from Trier University, Germany, for reading an earlier version of this paper. Their comments and our discussions helped clarify some of the issues raised here. In this paper, I use mamluk with a small initial "m" to refer to military slaves in general, while Mamluk with a capital "M" will refer to the Sultanate established and rule by officers of slave origin (and the "Mamluks" will refer to this specific ruling group). 2- See, e.g., R. Amitai-Preiss, "An Exchange of Letters in Arabic between Abaya Ilkhan and Sultan Baybars (A.H. 667 / A.O. 1268-9)", Central Asiatic journal, 38 (1994), 11-33; D. Aigle, "La legitimite islamique des invasions de la Syrie par Ghazan Khan", Eurasian Studies, 511-2 (2006), 5-29; and the excellent new study A.F. Broadbridge, Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds, Cambridge, 2008.