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Frédéric Bauden, Malika Dekkiche (éd.), Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies. Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics, Brill, 2019Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 161 Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the... Show MoreISBN: 978-90-04-38463-7DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004384637Table des matièresPrefaceAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsMamluk Diplomatics: the Present State of ResearchBy: Frédéric BaudenPages: 1–10 Mamluk Diplomacy: the Present State of ResearchBy: Malika DekkichePages: 105–182 Diplomatic Conventions Diplomatics, or Another Way to See the WorldBy: Malika DekkichePages: 185–21 Strong Letters at the Mamluk CourtBy: Lucian ReinfandtPages: 214–23 Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk CairoBy: Yehoshua FrenkelPages: 238–259 The Mongols and Their Successors Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658–741/1260–1341By: Anne F. BroadbridgePages: 263–30 The Golden Horde and the Mamluks: the Birth of a Diplomatic Set-Up (660–5/1261–7)By: Marie FavereauPages: 302–32 Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing?By: Reuven AmitaiPages: 327–33 Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambition and Ideology during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth CenturiesBy: Hend Gilli-ElewyPages: 340–36 Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sulṭān Aḥmad Jalāyir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk SultanateBy: Patrick WingPages: 363–37 The Timurids, the Turkmens, and the Ottomans Niẓām al-Dīn Shāmī’s Description of the Syrian Campaign of TīmūrBy: Michele BernardiniPages: 381–409 Diplomatic Entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter Datable to 818/1415By: Frédéric BaudenPages: 410–483 Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Sultan Meḥmed II’s Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic ConventionsBy: Kristof D’hulsterPages: 484–509 The Western Islamic Lands Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the Last Hope for al-AndalusBy: Bárbara Boloix GallardoPages: 511–528 Entre Ifrīqiya hafside et Égypte mamelouke: Des relations anciennes, continues et consolidéesBy: Mounira Chapoutot-RemadiPages: 529–565 Tracking Down the Hafsid Diplomatic Missions All the Way to the Turco-Mamluk Borders (892–6/1487–91)By: Lotfi Ben MiledPages: 566–577 Arabia, India, and Africa Diplomatic Networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to Early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)By: Éric ValletPages: 581–603 “Aggression in the Best of Lands”: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth CenturyBy: John L. MeloyPages: 604–620 Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatābād, and Aḥmadābād during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth CenturiesBy: Stephan Conermann and Anna KollatzPages: 621–637 The Ḥaṭī and the Sultan: Letters and Embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk CourtBy: Julien LoiseauPages: 638–657 “Peace Be upon Those Who Follow the Right Way”: Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the End of the Eighth/Fourteenth CenturyBy: Rémi DewièrePages: 658–683 The Latin West The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in CairoBy: Pierre MoukarzelPages: 685–710 In the Name of the Minorities: Lisbon’s Muslims as Emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of EgyptBy: Maria Filomena Lopes de BarrosPages: 711–724 Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838–78/1435–73: the Accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghrī BirdīBy: Nicholas CoureasPages: 725–740 Negotiating the Last Mamluk-Venetian Commercial Decree (922–3/1516–7): Commercial Liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the Early Tenth/Sixteenth CenturyBy: Gladys Frantz-MurphyPages: 741–781 Three Mamluk Letters Concerning the Florentine Trade in Egypt and Syria: a New InterpretationBy: Alessandro RizzoPages: 782–799 Material Culture Écritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des cérémonies officielles à l’ époque mameloukeBy: Ludvik KalusPages: 801–822 Precious Objects for Eminent Guests: the Use of Chinese Ceramics in Mamluk Cairo: the Fustat Ceramic Collection from The Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels)By: Valentina VezzoliPages: 823–842 Index