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OverviewMustafa 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mustafa BanisterPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781474453370ISBN 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 This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""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" Author InformationMustafa 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |