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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Al-'Usur al-Wusta |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/7022 |