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A Turning Point in Mamluk History
The Third Reign of al-NÄsir MuhÌ£ammad Ibn QalÄwÅ«n (1310-1341)
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 10
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A Turning Point in Mamluk History deals with the process of decline of the Mamluk state (1250-1517). Its main thesis is that the origins of this process are to be found in the third reign of al-NÄsir MuhÌ£ammad Ibn QalÄwÅ«n, more specifically in the changes he effected in the Mamluk system.
The Mamluk army was the first to be confronted with these changes, whose impact on the social and political life of the Mamluk elite was already felt during al-NÄsir's own lifetime. The author follows their course of development to the end of autonomous Mamluk rule and reveals the transformation they wrought in the Mamluk code of values and political concepts.
A final chapter deals with the overall economic decline of the Mamluk state and establishes the link of its various causesâdemographic decline, monetary crises, the collapse of agriculture and industryâwith Mamluk government misrule. Here it is al-NÄsir's expenditure policy and its repercussions on the economy which reveal his reign as a point of no return.
The Mamluk army was the first to be confronted with these changes, whose impact on the social and political life of the Mamluk elite was already felt during al-NÄsir's own lifetime. The author follows their course of development to the end of autonomous Mamluk rule and reveals the transformation they wrought in the Mamluk code of values and political concepts.
A final chapter deals with the overall economic decline of the Mamluk state and establishes the link of its various causesâdemographic decline, monetary crises, the collapse of agriculture and industryâwith Mamluk government misrule. Here it is al-NÄsir's expenditure policy and its repercussions on the economy which reveal his reign as a point of no return.
Amalia Levanoni, Ph.D. (1990) in Islamic History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, teaches Medieval Islamic History at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. Her publications deal extensively with Mamluk history, which is her special field of interest.
'This book is a welcome additon to the growing corpus of Mamluk-era scholarship...Although this study is likely to be of interest mainly to scholars of the Mamluks and other aspects of medieval islamic history, it is accessible to the nonspecialist willing to skip over the transliterated Arabic...This book will be a good and useful acquisition for institutional libraries.'
Warren C. Schultz, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1997.
Warren C. Schultz, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1997.
Scholars and students of Islam, Islamic History, the Mamluk State, and Mamluk Economy, as well as political scientists in general.