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Selected Works This bibliography is no longer being updated.
Amitai, Reuven. “The Mamlūk Institution, or One Thousand Years of Military Slavery in the Islamic World.” In Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age, Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan, eds., 40-78. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
Amitai-Preiss, Reuven. Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Īlkhānid War, 1260-1281. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Ayalon, David. Outsiders in the Lands of Islam: Mamluks, Mongols and Eunuchs. London: Variorum Reprints, 1988.
Ayalon, David. Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries. Aldershot: Variorum, 1994.
Berkey, Jonathan. The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1992.
Broadbridge, Anne F. Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Chamberlain, Michael. Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Conermann, Stephan, ed. Ubi Sumus? Quo Vademus? Mamluk Studies – State of the Art. V&R Unipress, 2013.
Hirschler, Konrad. “Studying Mamluk Historiography. From Source-Criticism to the Cultural Turn.” In Ubi Sumus? Quo Vademus? Mamluk Studies – State of the Art, ed. Stephan Conermann, 159–86. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2013.
Hirschler, Konrad. The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Hofer, Nathan. The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
Holt, P. M. The Age of the Crusades: the Near East from the eleventh century to 1517. London: Longman, 1986.
Homerin, Th. Emil. “The Study of Islam within Mamluk Domains.” Mamlūk Studies Review 9.2 (2005): 1-30. [open access]
Irwin, Robert. The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The early Mamluk Sultanate 1250-1382. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
Jackson, Sherman A. “The Primacy of Domestic Politics: Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz and the Establishment of Four Chief Judgeships in Mamlûk Egypt.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 115.1 (1995): 52-65.
Levanoni, Amalia. “The Mamluk Conception of the Sultanate.” International Journal of Middle East Studies. 26 (1994), 373-392.
Levanoni, Amalia. A turning point in Mamluk history: the third reign of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad Ibn Qalāwūn 1310-1341. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995.
Little, Donald P. “Coptic Conversion to Islam under the Baḥrī Mamlūks, 692-755/1293-1354.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 39 (1976), 552-569.
Little, Donald P. “Religion under the Mamluks.” The Muslim World. 73 (1983), 165-181.
Little, Donald Presgrave. An Introduction to Mamlūk Historiography: An Analysis of Arabic Annalistic and Biographical Sources for the Reign of al-Malik an-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1970.
Makdisi, George. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning In Islam and the West. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
Marmon, Shaun. Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Mazor, Amir. The Rise and Fall of a Muslim Regiment: The Manṣūriyya in the First Mamluk Sultanate, 678/1279–741/1341. Bonn: Bonn University Press at V&R Unipress, 2015.
Muhanna, Elias. “Why Was the Fourteenth Century a Century of Arabic Encyclopaedism?” In Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance, ed. Jason König and Greg Woolf, 343–56. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Nielsen, Jørgen S. Secular Justice in an Islamic State: Maẓālim Under the Baḥrī Mamlūks, 662/1264-789/1387. Leiden: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 1985.
Rapoport, Yossef. “Legal Diversity in the Age of Taqlīd: The Four Chief Qāḍīs Under the Mamluks.” Islamic Law and Society 10.2 (2003): 210–28.
Rapoport, Yossef. “Royal Justice and Religious Law: Siyāsah and Shari’ah Under the Mamluks.” Mamlūk Studies Review 16 (2012): 71–102. [open access]
Rapoport, Yossef. “Women and Gender in Mamluk Society: An Overview.” Mamlūk Studies Review 11.2 (2007): 1-47. [open access]
Sabra, Adam. Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Shoshan, Boaz. Popular culture in medieval Cairo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Somogyi, Joseph, trans. “Adh-Dhababi's Record of the Destruction of Damascus by the Mongols in 1299-1301.” In Ignace Goldziher Memorial Volume, Part 1. Ed. Samuel Löwinger and Joseph Somogyi, 353-86. Budapest: Globus, 1948.
Stilt, Kristen. Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
van Steenbergen, Jo. Order Out of Chaos: Patronage, Conflict and Mamluk Socio-political Culture, 1341-1382. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
van Steenbergen, Jo. “The Mamluk Sultanate as a Military Patronage State: Household Politics and the Case of the Qalāwūnid Bayt (1279-1382).” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 56 (2013): 189–217.
Winter, Michael, and Amalia Levanoni, eds. Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Yosef, Koby. “Dawlat Al-Atrāk or Dawlat Al-Mamālīk? Ethnic Origin or Slave Origin as the Defining Characteristic of the Ruling élite in the Mamlūk Sultanate.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 39 (2012): 387–410.