The Mamluk City in the Middle East : History, Culture, and the Urban Landscape.
An interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the nature of urbanism under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517).
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| 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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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction. 1. Urban regional history before the Mamluks: presenting Tripoli, Safad, and Jerusalem
- Part II. 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 III. The socially constructed city. 5. Awqāf and urban infrastructures ; 6. Icons of power and expressions of religious piety: the politics of Mamluk patronage
- Part IV. The conceptualized city. 7. Cities scripted, envisioned, and perceived ; 8. The public sphere
- urban autonomy and its limitations.
