Trajectories of State Formation Across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences

Trajectories of State Formation Across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences

The concept, practice, institution and appearance of ‘the state’ have been hotly debated ever since the emergence of history as a discipline within modern scholarship. The field of medieval Islamic history, however, has remained aloof from most of these debates. Rather it tends to take for granted t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Steenbergen, J. van, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2020]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Rulers and their times ; Volume 18.
Materias:
State, The > Origin.
Islamic countries > History > 15th century.
Eurasia > Civilization.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009646930406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures, Tables and Maps
  • List on Contributors
  • Introduction: State Formation in the Fifteenth Century and the Western Eurasian Canvas: Problems and Opportunities
  • Jo Van Steenbergen
  • Maps
  • Part 1: Whither the Fifteenth Century?
  • 1 From Temür to Selim: Trajectories of Turko-Mongol State Formation in Islamic West-Asia’s Long Fifteenth Century
  • Jo Van Steenbergen
  • 2 Studying Rulers and States across Fifteenth Century Western Eurasia
  • Jan Dumolyn and Jo Van Steenbergen
  • Part 2: From Cairo to Constantinople: The Construction of West-Asian Centers of Power
  • 3 The Road to the Citadel as a Chain of Opportunity: Mamluks’ Careers between Contingency and Institutionalization
  • Kristof D’hulster
  • 4 The Syro-Egyptian Sultanate in Transformation, 1496–1498: Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qaytbay and the Reformation of mamlūk Institutions and Symbols of State Power
  • Albrecht Fuess
  • 5 Tales of Viziers and Wine: Interpreting Early Ottoman Narratives of State Centralization
  • Dimitri Kastritsis
  • Part 3: From Khwaf to Alexandria: The Accommodation of West-Asian Peripheries of Power
  • 6 Iranian Elites under the Timurids
  • Beatrice F. Manz
  • 7 The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk Hegemony
  • John L. Meloy
  • 8 The Syrian Commercial Elite and Mamluk State-Building in the Fifteenth Century
  • Patrick Wing
  • 9 Settling Accounts with the Sultan: Cortesia , Zemechia and Venetian Fiscality in Fifteenth Century Alexandria
  • Georg Christ
  • Index.

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