A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī
S ince Mohammad Awad’s pioneering work in 1940, the learned social gatherings (majālis) of the penultimate Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516) have helped produce a small, but lively scholarship on the courtly life of the late Mamluk period.1 Doubtless, such interest has been fuel...
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| description | S ince Mohammad Awad’s pioneering work in 1940, the learned social gatherings (majālis) of the penultimate Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516) have helped produce a small, but lively scholarship on the courtly life of the late Mamluk period.1 Doubtless, such interest has been fueled largely by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ʿAzzām’s 1941 edition of two Arabic sources that focus on the majālis: Nafāʾis majālis al-sulṭāniyya fī ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-Qurʾāniyya (sic) of the little known author al-Sharīf Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (f. early 10th/16th c.), and al-Kawkab al-durrī fī masāʾil al-Ghawrī of unknown authorship. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bef3e1c0590e4b20bfeb3a56cc9bf6fa2023-02-02T02:08:07ZengColumbia University LibrariesAl-'Usur al-Wusta1068-10512016-11-0124110.7916/alusur.v24i1.7022A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-GhawrīChristian MauderChristopher MarkiewiczS ince Mohammad Awad’s pioneering work in 1940, the learned social gatherings (majālis) of the penultimate Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906-922/1501-1516) have helped produce a small, but lively scholarship on the courtly life of the late Mamluk period.1 Doubtless, such interest has been fueled largely by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ʿAzzām’s 1941 edition of two Arabic sources that focus on the majālis: Nafāʾis majālis al-sulṭāniyya fī ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-Qurʾāniyya (sic) of the little known author al-Sharīf Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (f. early 10th/16th c.), and al-Kawkab al-durrī fī masāʾil al-Ghawrī of unknown authorship.https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/7022 |
| spellingShingle | Christian Mauder Christopher Markiewicz A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī Al-'Usur al-Wusta |
| title | A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī |
| title_full | A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī |
| title_fullStr | A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī |
| title_full_unstemmed | A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī |
| title_short | A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī |
| title_sort | new source on the social gatherings majalis of the mamluk sultan qansawh al ghawri |
| url | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/7022 |
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