This volume brings together twelve works by scholars specializing in different areas related to the Mamluk history of Egypt, the center of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), and Syria. The publications presented here are the fruit of an international conference that took place at the University of Haifa in April 2011. I extend my gratitude to my colleagues for their perseverance and efforts to produce an up-to-date volume in the ever-growing and changing field of Mamluk studies, which is now attracting rising numbers of young, promising scholars. I would also like to thank Esther Singer for her impressive work on the language editing of this volume and extend my gratitude to Rebekah Zwanzig for her professional and meticulous edition of this volume’s manuscript. I am grateful to the anonymous reader of this volume’s manuscript for his important and helpful comments.
I am thankful to the Division of Humanities and the Research Authority of Haifa University for providing the financial aid enabling the publication of this volume.