Project

The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate II: historiography, political order and state formation in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria.

Acronym
MMS-II
Code
41P09117
Duration
30 December 2016 → 31 December 2021
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Principal investigator
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Historiography
    • Cultural history
    • Medieval history
    • Middle Eastern history
    • Political history
    • Literatures in Arabic
    • Study of Islam and quranic studies
Keywords
Mamluk sultanate historiography Egypt Syria State Formation Arabic
Other information
 
Project description

MMS-II pursues the hypothesis that de 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 to rely heavily on the rich Arabic historiographical production of the period. However, the particular nature, impact and value of this highly politicized historiography remains hugely underexplored and underestimated. MMS-II aims to remedy this, by arguing with and beyond instead of against or outside of this historiography's subjectivities. It wants to understand its texts as products of particular socio-cultural practices and, at the same time, as a particular type of actors in such practices.

 
 
 
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA). Neither the European Union nor the authority can be held responsible for them.