Mamluk Studies Review
- Issues and Downloads
- About MSR
- Detailed Contents, Vols. 1-15
- Style Guide
Issues and Downloads:
Several issues are currently available for download, with more to be added soon. All issues of MSR since Volume I (1997) will eventually be available in their entirety.
Below are links to a PDF of each issue as well as PDFs of individual articles.
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XV (2011)
Download the entire issue: Vol. XV (2011)
Individual articles:
Sending Home for Mom and Dad: The Extended Family Impulse in Mamluk Politics by Anne Broadbridge
Climbing the Ladder: Social Mobility in the Mamluk Period by Irmeli Perho
The Halqah in the Mamluk Army: Why Was it Not Dissolved When It Reached Its Nadir? by Amalia Levanoni
Hanafism and the turks in al-Tarasusi's Gift for the Turks (1352) by Baki Tezcan
The Politics of Insult: The Mamluk Sultanate's Response to Criminal Affronts by Carl F. Petry
On the Brink of a New Era? Yalbugha al-Khassaki (d. 1366) and the Yalbughawiyah by Jo Van Steenbergen
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XIV (2010) A festschrift in honor of Carl F. Petry
Download the entire issue: Vol. XIV (2010)
Individual articles:
Bibliography of Carl F. Petry's Publications
Al-Subki and His Women by Jonathan P. Berkey
“Our Sorry State!” Al-Buṣiri's Lamentations on Life and an Appeal for Cash by Th. Emil Homerin
Spy or Rebel? The Curious Incident of the Temurid Sultan-Husayn’s Defection to the Mamluks at Damascus in 803/1400–1 by Anne F. Broadbridge
Mamluk Historical Rajaz Poetry: Ibn Daniyal’s Judge List and Its Later Adaptations by Li Guo
Who Were the “Salt of the Earth” in Fifteenth-Century Egypt? by Amalia Levanoni
The Evolution of the Sultanic Fisc and al-Dhakhirah during the Circassian Mamluk Period by Igarashi Daisuke
From Ceramics to Social Theory: Reflections on Mamluk Archaeology Today by Bethany J. Walker
Maqriziana IX: Should al-Maqrizi Be Thrown Out with the Bath Water? The Question of His Plagiarism of al-Awhadi’s Khitat and the Documentary Evidence by Frédéric Bauden
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XIII, no. 2 (2009) Religion in the Mamluk Period
Download the entire issue: Vol. XIII, no. 2 (2009)
Individual articles:
Obituary: Winslow W. Clifford, 1954–2009 by Bruce D. Craig
Introduction by Johannes Pahlitzsch
Mamluk Religious Policy by Jonathan P. Berkey
'Ilm, Shafa'ah, and Barakah: The Resources of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Ulama by Daniella Talmon-Heller
The Collection and Edition of Ibn Taymiyah’s Works: Concerns of a Disciple by Caterina Bori
The Problem of Sufism by Richard McGregor
Idealism and Intransigence: A Christian-Muslim Encounter in Early Mamluk Times by David Thomas
A Christian Arab Gospel Book: Cairo, Coptic Museum MS Bibl. 90 in its Mamluk Context by Lucy-Anne Hunt
At the Limits of Communal Autonomy: Jewish Bids for Intervention from the Mamluk State by Marina Rustow
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XIII, no. 1 (2009)
Download the entire issue: Vol. XIII, no. 1 (2009)
Individual articles:
Symbiotic Relations: Ulama and the Mamluk Sultans by Yaacov Lev
The Financial Reforms of Sultan Qaytbay by Igarashi Daisuke
The Sons of al-Nasir Muhammad and the Politics of Puppets:
Where Did It All Start? by Frédéric Bauden
The Tribal Dimension in Mamluk-Jordanian Relations by Bethany J. Walker
An Unpublished Anthology of the Mamluk Period on Generosity
and Generous Men by Antonella Ghersetti
Zulm by Mazalim? The Political Implications of the Use of Mazalim Jurisdiction by the Mamluk Sultans by Albrecht Fuess
Awqaf in Mamluk Bilad al-Sham by Yehoshua Frenkel
Book Reviews
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XII, no. 2 (2008)
Download the entire issue: Vol. XII, no. 2 (2008)
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XII, no. 1 (2008)
Download the entire issue: Vol. XII, no. 1 (2008)
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XI, no. 2 (2007)
Download the entire issue: Vol. XI, no. 2 (2007)
Mamluk Studies Review Volume XI, no. 1 (2007)
Download the entire issue: Vol. XI, no. 1 (2007)
More coming soon!
All back issues from Volume I through Volume XII are available for purchase at the reduced price of $50 per issue (plus shipping). Contact MEDOC for more information or to place an order: mideast-library@uchicago.edu.
MAMLUK STUDIES REVIEW
Published by the Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC)
The University of Chicago
Mamluk Studies Review is an annual refereed journal devoted to the study of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria (648-922/1250-1517). Since volume XIII, no. 1, Mamluk Studies Review has been published not in conventional print format, but as an open-access online publication. The goals of Mamluk Studies Review are to take stock of scholarship devoted to the Mamluk era, nurture communication within the field, and promote further research by encouraging the critical discussion of all aspects of this important medieval Islamic polity. The journal includes both articles and reviews of recent books. Submissions of original work on any aspect of the field are welcome, although the editorial board will periodically issue volumes devoted to specific topics and themes. Mamluk Studies Review also solicits edited texts and translations of shorter Arabic source materials (waqf deeds, letters, fatawa and the like), and encourages discussions of Mamluk era artifacts (pottery, coins, etc.) that place these resources in wider contexts. All questions regarding style should be resolved through reference to The Chicago Manual of Style. Transliterated Middle Eastern languages should conform to the system utilized by the Library of Congress (see the conversion chart near the end of each volume) using a Unicode font that contains all necessary diacritical marks. Submissions may be made via email, but authors may be required to send a printed copy and/or a CD-ROM which includes the article, all figures and illustrations, and any special fonts used. Please contact the editor (ideally before creating the files) for specifications relevant to illustrations, photos, maps and other graphics. Articles which diverge widely from format and style guidelines may not be accepted, and illustrations which do not meet the requirements set forth by the editors may not be usable.
Mamluk Studies Review is copyrighted by the Middle East Documentation Center, The University of Chicago. Some rights reserved. Content in Mamluk Studies Review may be downloaded, reproduced, and distributed for non-commercial personal and scholarly use, provided that individual authors and Mamluk Studies Review are always properly cited as the original source, and that the work is not altered or transformed in any way or used for any commercial purpose.
Please contact the editor regarding uses which may fall outside of this description.
All communications should be sent to: The Editor, Mamluk Studies Review, 5828 South University Avenue, 201 Pick Hall, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. The editor can be contacted by email at msaleh[at]uchicago.edu.
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What is MEDOC
MEDOC is a research unit supporting scholarly work in Middle Eastern Studies. It is currently undertaking a number of projects to this end.
MEDOC is coordinating the development, through the cooperative efforts of many libraries, of a microfilmed collection of resources pertinent to Middle Eastern Studies. The Catalogue of Microforms Projects in Ottoman, Persian and Arabic represents the fruits of this ongoing project.
MEDOC publishes and serves as the editorial focal point for Mamluk Studies Review.
The most well-known online project of MEDOC is the The Chicago Online Bibliography of Mamluk Studies, two searchable databases listing primary and secondary literature from or relating to the Mamluk period.
Most recently, MEDOC has undertaken several online projects:
The Chicago Online Encyclopedia of Mamluk Studies will be a definitive
reference source for topics having to do with the study of Egypt and Syria from
1250 to 1517, and complements the existing resources. It will fill lacunae in
existing resources such as the Encyclopedia of Islam. As an online resource,
rather than print, the Encyclopedia is able to grow indefinitely and change.
The Encyclopedia will eventually provide, in addtition to an unlimited number
of articles, materials which are difficult--or even impossible--to contain and
update in printed resources. These include interactive maps, architectural plans
and photos, archaeological results and diagrams, searchable full-text Arabic
sources from the Mamluk period (including hundreds of documents and manuscripts
which remain unpublished and therefore unavailable to the scholarly community),
an ever-growing glossary of Mamluk terminology in Arabic and English, and an
index of names, terms, and other items in all back issues of Mamluk Studies
Review. The Encyclopedia is fully searchable, and will feature topic indexes
for browsing and hyperlinked cross-references within articles.
Interactive online and freely printable maps of the Mamluk Sultanate and the wider region during the Mamluk period are currently being drawn. When complete, these high resolution maps will be available for scholarly use, free of charge, via downloads from this site. They will be integrated with The Chicago Online Encyclopedia of Mamluk Studies and this website, and users will be able to zoom in or out and choose what details to display. The maps will also be published in Mamluk Studies Review in 2006.
The Mamluk Mint Series Web Resource was inaugurated in 2003 with support from the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of this project is to create a classification system for Mamluk coins to supercede that given by Paul Balog in his 1964 book The Coinage of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt and Syria, which cannot be conveniently expanded, and to provide online images of the Mamluk coins held in various museums and research institutes around the world. The results of this endeavor, in the form of a searchable online database, will be available in due course on this site.
The Arabic Translation Databank is an attempt to identify all translations of modern and classical Arabic literature (broadly defined) into English. Compilation of the database is in progress. When a sufficient mass of items is reached, the database will be available on this site. The further intention is to make available online as many of these texts as possible, including both those which are in the public domain and those whose copyright holders grant permission. This project is being undertaken in cooperation with Mideast Medievalists.
MEDOC publishes Chicago Studies on the Middle East, on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Chicago.
MEDOC has also created the Mamluk Listserv as a discussion forum for
scholars interested in the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt
and Syria.
To subscribe, see https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/mamluk
Mamluk Bibliography
The Chicago Online Bibliography of Mamluk Studies is an on-going project of the Middle East Documentation Center at the University of Chicago, the aim of which is to compile comprehensive bibliographies of all primary sources relating to the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria, as well as all research and discussion--scholarly and popular--germane to the subject. The project takes the form of two bibliographies: the primary and the secondary.
Mamluk Encyclopedia
The Chicago Online Encyclopedia of Mamluk Studies
New feature and many more articles are coming soon, along with a new interface.
Mamluk Coins
The Mamluk Mint Series Web Resource was inaugurated in 2003 with support from the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of this project is to create a classification system for Mamluk coins to supercede that given by Paul Balog in his 1964 book The Coinage of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt and Syria, which cannot be conveniently expanded, and to provide online images of the Mamluk coins held in various museums and research institutes around the world. The results of this endeavor, in the form of a searchable online database, will be available in due course on this site.
Mamluk Maps
Interactive online and freely printable maps of the Mamluk Sultanate and the wider region during the Mamluk period are currently being drawn. When complete, these high resolution maps will be available for scholarly use, free of charge, via downloads from this site. They will be integrated with The Chicago Online Encyclopedia of Mamluk Studies and this website, and users will be able to zoom in or out and choose what details to display. The maps will also be published in Mamluk Studies Review.
Dissertation Prize
The Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies
The Bruce D. Craig Prize, carrying a cash award of $1,000, is given annually by Mamluk Studies Review for the best dissertation on a topic related to the Mamluk Sultanate submitted to an American or Canadian university during the preceding calendar year. In the event no dissertations are submitted, or none is deemed to merit the prize, no prize will be awarded. To be considered for the 2011 Prize, dissertations must be defended by December 31, 2011, and submitted to the Prize Committee by January 31, 2012. Submissions should be sent to:
Chair, Prize Committee
Mamluk Studies Review
Pick Hall 201
5828 S. University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Previous Prize Winners:
2004: Tamer el-Leithy, Princeton University, "Coptic Culture and Conversion in
Medieval Cairo: 1293-1524."
2005: Zayde G. Antrim, Harvard University, "Place and Belonging in Medieval
Syria, 6th/12th to 8th/14th Centuries."
2006: Nahyan A. G. Fancy, University of Notre Dame, "Pulmonary Transit and
Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the
Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288)."
2007: No prize was awarded.
2008: No prize was awarded.
2009: No prize was awarded.
2010: No prize was awarded.