Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517
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Abbasid Empire
Author_Mustafa Banister
caliphate
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Egypt
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Mamluk
medieval history
Middle Eastern history
political legitimacy
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- ISBN 9781474453363
- Weight: 892g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2021
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public and private lives of the 18 men invested as caliphs during the period of ‘Mamluk’ rule in Egypt and Syria (1250–1517) and reveals a nuanced understanding of the Abbasid Caliphate according to elite members of Syro-Egyptian society. In doing so, he addresses the function of the caliph and his office amidst the breakdown and recreation of each new socio-political order of the sultanate.
Mustafa Banister is a post-doctoral researcher in Arabic Historiography at Ghent University, Belgium. He obtained a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015 and then spent several years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bonn and Ghent University. Banister has published articles in the Mamlūk Studies Review and a chapter in Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam edited by Sebastian Günther (Brill, 2020). His current research focuses on the historiographical writing of the Syro-Egyptian litterateur Aḥmad ibn ‘Arabshāh (d. 1450).
