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This project explores the Mamluk sultanate's cultural identity through the lens of Arabic historiography from 1410-1460. It examines how historical narratives shaped and reflected social structures and power dynamics within the sultanate, aiming to enhance understanding of late medieval Middle Eastern history.
MMS-II pursues the hypothesis that the Mamluk sultanate was a cultural product constructed in the interaction between state formation and historiography. MMS-II follows up from the ERC-project MMS' focus on the social production of power networks in the Syro-Egyptian sultanate between the 1410s and 1460s, but it does so by directing the themes of political history and Arabic historiography towards entirely new, unexplored horizons.
Current understanding of the late medieval Middle East continues…
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