Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9226-3 (ISBN)
Archives are not only sources for history but have their own histories too, which shape how historians can tell stories of the past. This book explores the archival history of one of the most powerful polities of the late-medieval Middle East: the ‘Mamluk’ sultanate of Cairo. Relying on surviving original documents, it focuses on archival practices connected to waqf, the pious endowments that became one of the characteristic features of late-medieval Islamic societies. By centring a close exploration of documents connected to processes of endowment and property exchange, this book sheds light on a startling culture of document accumulation that was shared by the diverse social groups involved in founding and managing endowments: sultans and emirs, qadis, legal notaries, and scribes. Emphasising the documents’ life cycles from production, to preservation, to disposal and loss, it argues for the use of surviving documents to tell their own archival histories.
Daisy Livingston is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Durham University. She received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration, Terminology and Dates
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Transcending the ‘Archive Problem’
1. The Relationship between Waqf Endowments and Archiving
Part I. Notaries, Qadis and Document Production
2. The Document as Archive
3. A Mass of Documentation
Part II. The Waqf Archive
4. The Waqf Archive of Sultan al-Ghawrī
5. The Life of a Waqf Archive
Part III. A Late-Mamluk Archival Landscape
6. The Dynamics of Private Property Archiving
7. Accumulating Documents Across the Mamluk Capital
Closing Remarks
Appendix 1: List of Documents in al-Ghawrī’s Waqf Archive
Appendix 2: List of Documents in the Qaraite Corpus
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 illustrations (11 black & white figures, 3 black & white tables, 3 colour figures) |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-9226-6 / 1474492266 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-9226-3 / 9781474492263 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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