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In 1981 Carl Petry published his "The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages". Around ten years later Bernadette Martel-Thoumian followed up with her book "Les civils et l'administration dans l'etat militaire mamluk (IXe/XVe siecle)". Since then these two authors, who, according to reliable sources, have never met in person, have worked on such closely related topics of society and institutions of the Mamluk realm, especially in the fifteenth century, that studies of criminal wrongdoing became inevitable. In 2012, within several months, each of them published a monograph dealing with crime and punishment in the Mamluk Empire. Such suspicious circumstances turn the reviewer into a criminal investigator, charged first of all with finding out who copied from whom. However, after thorough research the present detective has to acknowledge that there is no plagiarism involved, at least nothing which can be detected with today's technology. But for now, it just seems that two scientific minds exploring the same research area have discovered the same topic at about the same time. After all there is some logic to it, as both in the last decades moved from the study of civil admini

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Author

Albrecht Fuess

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2017

Field

Social Sciences