The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517: Out of the Shadows

Author:   Mustafa Banister
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781474453370


Pages:   504
Publication Date:   10 January 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public and private lives of the 18 men invested as caliphs during the period of 'Mamluk' rule in Egypt and Syria (12501517) and reveals a nuanced understanding of the Abbasid Caliphate according to elite members of Syro-Egyptian society. In doing so, he addresses the function of the caliph and his office amidst the breakdown and recreation of each new socio-political order of the sultanate.

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Author:   Mustafa Banister
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474453370


ISBN 10:   1474453376
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   10 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"""Mustafa Banister's masterful study captures the tensions between an institution of lofty stature in the medieval Islamic world with the reality of its minimal influence in the political hierarchy of the Mamluk Sultanate in Cairo that gave it a new lease on life. Banister's monograph is the definitive treatment of a critical topic that, to date, has been discussed tangentially."" -Carl F. Petry, Northwestern University"


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Mustafa Banister is a post-doctoral researcher in Arabic Historiography at Ghent University, Belgium. He obtained a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015 and then spent several years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bonn and Ghent University. Banister has published articles in the Maml?k Studies Review and a chapter in Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam edited by Sebastian G nther (Brill, 2020). His current research focuses on the historiographical writing of the Syro-Egyptian litterateur A?mad ibn 'Arabsh?h (d. 1450).

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