Carl F Petry
Biographic Data
| ID | 248249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl F Petry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl F |
| FAMILY NAME | Petry |
| SIGNATURE | PETRY C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Mamluk Sultanate: A History
The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime of slave-soldiers incorporated many of the political structures and cultural traditions of its Fatimid and Ayyubid predecessors. Yet its system of governance and centralisation of authority represented radical departures from the hierarchies of powe…
Class Solidarity versus Gender Gain: Women as Custodians of Property in Later Medieval Egypt
Bethany J. Walker. Jordan in the Late Middle Ages: Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier
Bethany J. Walker describes the period under study (the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries C.E.) as a medieval “global” moment that witnessed radical changes to political structures and economic systems worldwide. Her monograph marks a turning point in the evolution of scholarship on the political economy of states and societies throughout the premodern Arabic-speaking Middle East. Walker's analysis of the rural hinterlands in Greater Syria …
Disruptive “Others” as Depicted in the Chronicles of the Late Mamlūk Period
The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800)
History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more developed tradition. This book is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, examining different authors, their works and the intellectual climate in which they flourished. Due prominence is given to the great historians of the Mamluk period (c.1260-1517) but also to the less well-known writers of the Ottoman period. The essa…
Robing Ceremonials in Late Mamluk Egypt: Hallowed Traditions, Shifting Protocols
The final decades of the Mamluk Sultanate based in Cairo witnessed the assiduous maintenance of court-sponsored ceremonials in which robing figured ubiquitously. The impression of imperial continuity these ceremonials aimed to project was in fact something of a facade masking shifts in concepts of prestige on the part of the Mamluk ruling oligarchy. The following essay seeks to indicate the circumstances of robe granting while discerning such shi…
The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517
War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries
Preface List of Abbreviations and Illustrations Contributors Introduction 1 1. Arms of the Umayyad Era: Military Technology in a Time of Change -- David Nicolle 9 2. Some Administrative, Military and Socio-Political Aspects of Early Muslim Egypt -- Khalil 'Athamina 101 3. Regime, Army and Society in Medieval Egypt, 9th-12th Centuries -- Yaacov Lev 115 4. Personal Adversities of Jews during the Period of the Fatimid Wars in Eleventh Century Palest…
The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517
Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography: Al-Yūnīnī's Dhayl Mirʾāt al-zamān
A: Reviews: general
THE CITADEL OF CAIRO: A NEW INTERPRETATION OF ROYAL MAMLUK ARCHITECTURE. By Nasser O. Rabbat. Leiden, New York and Köln, E.J. Brill, 1995. 339 pp., 32 Plates, 48 figs. THE MAMLUKS IN EGYPTIAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY. Edited by Thomas Philipp and Ulrich Haarmann. Cambridge, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv + 306 pp., illustrations, L35.00/$59.95. THE OTTOMAN TURKS: AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY. By Justin McC…
Islamic Egypt 640-1517
The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the Arab conquest to the present day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic and cultural history of the world's oldest state, summarizing the debates and providing insight into controversies. As Egypt reclaims a leading role in the Islamic, Arab and Afro-Asian worlds, the project sta…
The Cambridge History of Egypt
The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the Arab conquest to the present day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic, and cultural history of the world's oldest state, summarizing the debates and providing insight into current controversies. As today's Egypt reclaims a leading role in the Islamic, Arab, and Afro-Asian world…
Fractionalized Estates in a Centralized Regime: The Holdings of Al-Ashraf Qāytbāy and Qānṣūh Al-Ghawrī According to Their Waqf Deeds
The article examines two cases of estate management from the late Mamlūk period in Egypt: shares in rural properties appropriated from former state lands by Sultans al-Ashraf Qāytbāy (872-901/1468-96) and Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī (906-22/1501-16) as indicated in their charitable endowment (waqf) deeds. Its objectives are: first, to plot the location of these property shares and thereby to determine whether any clustering or other geographic patterns are …
Itinéraires d'Orient: Hommages à Claude Cahen
Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281
Introduction 1. The historical background 2. The battle of 'Ayn Jalut 3. The formation of anti-Ilkhanid policy 4. The search for a second front 5. Military and diplomatic skirmishing 6. The secret war 7. Baybars' intervention in Seljuq Rum 8. Baybars' posthumous victory: the second battle of Homs 9. The Mamluk-Ilkhanid frontier 10. Mamluks versus Mongols: an overview
Décrire le Caire: Fustāt-Misr d'après Ibn Duqmāq et Maqrīzī; l'histoire d'une partie de la ville du Caire d'après deux historiens égyptiens des XIVe-XVe siècles
Protectors or Praetorians: The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power
Majnūn: The Madman in Medieval Islamic Society
Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power.
Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo. Boaz Shoshan
Twilight of Majesty: The Reigns of the Mamlūk Sultans al-Ashraf Qāytbāy and Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī in Egypt
Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry. R. Stephen Humphreys
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education
Bernadette Martel-Thoumian, Les civils et l'administration dans l'état militaire mamlūk (IX e /XV e siècle) (Damascus: (Institut Française de Damas, 1991). Pp. 518
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Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281
Introduction 1. The historical background 2. The battle of 'Ayn Jalut 3. The formation of anti-Ilkhanid policy 4. The search for a second front 5. Military and diplomatic skirmishing 6. The secret war 7. Baybars' intervention in Seljuq Rum 8. Baybars' posthumous victory: the second battle of Homs 9. The Mamluk-Ilkhanid frontier 10. Mamluks versus Mongols: an overview
Social History of Timbuktu: The Role of Muslim Scholars and Notables, 1400-1900
A Paradox of Patronage During the Later Mamluk Period
The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517
Fractionalized Estates in a Centralized Regime: The Holdings of Al-Ashraf Qāytbāy and Qānṣūh Al-Ghawrī According to Their Waqf Deeds
The article examines two cases of estate management from the late Mamlūk period in Egypt: shares in rural properties appropriated from former state lands by Sultans al-Ashraf Qāytbāy (872-901/1468-96) and Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī (906-22/1501-16) as indicated in their charitable endowment (waqf) deeds. Its objectives are: first, to plot the location of these property shares and thereby to determine whether any clustering or other geographic patterns are …
Décrire le Caire: Fustāt-Misr d'après Ibn Duqmāq et Maqrīzī; l'histoire d'une partie de la ville du Caire d'après deux historiens égyptiens des XIVe-XVe siècles
Geographic Origins of the Civil Judiciary of Cairo in the Fifteenth Century
GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL JUDICIARY OF CAIRO IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY BY CARL PETRY and STANLEY MENDENHALL (Evanston) The geographic mobility of social and professional groups in the pre-modern Near East has remained relatively unstudied. This has been due primarily to the alleged lack of source materials which provide more than occasional or general references to travel and migration. However, geographic and residential data provided by me…
Geographic Origins of Diwan Officials in Cairo During the Fifteenth Century
Geographic Origins of Academicians in Cairo During the Fifteenth Century
Geographic Origins of Religious Functionaries in Cairo during the Fifteenth Century
GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONARIES IN CAIRO DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY BY CARL PETRY (Northwestern University, Evanston) This final article analyzing the geographic mobility of civilian officials and professional groups during the Circassian Mamluk period 1) focuses on persons who, by virtue of their placement in the following positions, were responsible for the administration of religious service: imdms (prayer leaders), khatibs (pr…
The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages
This pioneer study presents a quantitative analysis of the civilian elite in Mamluk Cairo. Using information about 4,631 individuals drawn from two fifteenth-century biographical dictionaries, Carl Petry explores the geographic origins of the civilian elite (the 'ulama') and the distribution of their residences and places of work in Cairo. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to aga…
The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages
A Paradox of Patronage During the Later Mamluk Period
Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks . Esin Atil
Sex and Society in Islam: Birth Control before the Nineteenth Century
In this study of birth control in the classical Islamic world, Basim Musallam demonstrates the wide range of evidence available to dispel many assumptions current today. Medieval Arabic discussions of contraception and abortion in Islamic jurisprudence, medicine, materia medica, belles lettres, erotica and popular literature show that birth control was sanctioned by Islamic law and opinion. Contraceptive methods were available throughout pre-mode…
Books/Livres
Travel Patterns of Medieval Notables in the Near East
The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages
The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages
Social History of Timbuktu: The Role of Muslim Scholars and Notables, 1400-1900
The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517, by P. M. Holt, xiii + 250 pages, bibliography, glossary, genealogical tables, index. Longman, London1986. £15.95/£7.95
The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517, by P. M. Holt, xiii + 250 pages, bibliography, glossary, genealogical tables, index. Longman, London1986. £15.95/£7.95. - Volume 21 Issue 1
Secular Justice in an Islamic State; Mazalim under the Bahri Mamluks 662/1264-789/1387
Sultan Baibars I. von Ägypten: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Vorderen Orients im 13. Jahrhundert . Peter Thorau
Scholastic Stasis in Medieval Islam Reconsidered: Mamluk Patronage in Cairo
Carl F. Petry, Scholastic Stasis in Medieval Islam Reconsidered: Mamluk Patronage in Cairo, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Summer, 1993), pp. 323-348
Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry. R. Stephen Humphreys
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education
Bernadette Martel-Thoumian, Les civils et l'administration dans l'état militaire mamlūk (IX e /XV e siècle) (Damascus: (Institut Française de Damas, 1991). Pp. 518
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Twilight of Majesty: The Reigns of the Mamlūk Sultans al-Ashraf Qāytbāy and Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī in Egypt
Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power.
Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo. Boaz Shoshan
Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281
Introduction 1. The historical background 2. The battle of 'Ayn Jalut 3. The formation of anti-Ilkhanid policy 4. The search for a second front 5. Military and diplomatic skirmishing 6. The secret war 7. Baybars' intervention in Seljuq Rum 8. Baybars' posthumous victory: the second battle of Homs 9. The Mamluk-Ilkhanid frontier 10. Mamluks versus Mongols: an overview
History (39 works) · Islamic Studies and History (36 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (30 works) · Ancient history (29 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Classics (17 works) · Islam (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Mamluk (13 works)