Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian Parallels, Connections and Divergences (Rulers & Elites)

Van Steenbergen, Jo (EDT)

Brill（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 362 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004431300
• DDC分類 956.015

Full Description

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 the particularity of dynastic trajectories within slow-changing bureaucratic contexts. Trajectories of State Formation promotes a more critical and connected understanding of state formation in the late medieval Sultanates of Cairo and of the Timurid, Turkmen and Ottoman dynasties. Projecting seven case studies onto a broad canvas of European and West-Asian research, this volume presents a trans-dynastic reconstruction, interpretation and illustration of statist trajectories across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia.

The contributors are: Georg Christ, Kristof D'hulster, Jan Dumolyn, Albrecht Fuess, Dimitri J. Kastritsis, Beatrice Forbes Manz, John L. Meloy, Jo Van Steenbergen, and Patrick Wing.

Contents

 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