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Contents 8 Professor Amalia Levanoni’s Contribution to the Field of Mamluk Studies 12 Preface 14 Acknowledgments 24 List of Figures 25 Notes on Transliteration 27 Notes on Contributors 28 Part 1 Social and Cultural Issues 32 Chapter 1 Already Rich? Yet ‘Greed Deranged Him’ Elite Status and Criminal Complicity in the Mamluk Sultanate 34 Chapter 2 Usages of Kinship Terminology during the Mamluk Sultanate and the Notion of the ‘Mamlūk Family’ 47 Chapter 3 Medieval Middle Eastern Court Taste The Mamluk Case 107 Chapter 4 Du sang et des larmes Le destin tragique d’Aṣalbāy al-Jarkasiyya (m. en 915/1509) 128 Chapter 5 The Office of the Ustādār al-ʿĀliya in the Circassian Mamluk Era 146 Part 2 Women in Mamluk Society 174 Chapter 6 Women in the Urban Space of Medieval Muslim Cities 176 Chapter 7 Slave Girls and Learned Teachers Women in Mamluk Sources 189 Chapter 8 On Marriage in Damascus, 1480–1500 208 Part 3 Literary and Poetic Genres 218 Chapter 9 Songs, Poetry, and Storytelling Ibn Taghrī Birdī on the Yalbughā Affair 220 Chapter 10 Maqriziana XIII: An Exchange of Correspondence between al-Maqrīzī and al-Qalqashandī 232 Chapter 11 Sultan Selīm’s Obsession with Mamluk Egypt according to E

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Ben-Bassat, Yuval

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