The Mamluk city in the Middle East history, culture, and the urban landscape
"The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region...
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| Language: | English |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in islamic civilization
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Table of Contents:
- Part A: Introduction: 1. Urban regional history before the Mamluks: presenting Tripoli, Safad, and Jerusalem
- Part B: The Tangible City: 2. Reading the built environment: a field survey of Mamluk Jerusalem; 3. Houses and residential solutions in the cities of al-Sham; 4. The neighborhood: social and spatial expressions
- Part C: The Socially Constructed City: 5. Awqāf and urban infrastructures; 6. Icons of power and expressions of religious piety: the politics of Mamluk patronage
- Part D: The Conceptualized City: 7. Cities scripted, envisioned, and perceived; 8. The public sphere: urban autonomy and its limitations - Conclusion - Appendices - Bibliography
- Index.