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India has been fascinating travellers from the earliest ages of history, and has been described as a wondrous world of incredible wealth, as well as a somewhat mysterious place, by authors from many countries. The present volume is organized according to two main principles. First, we aim to dissect images of India in the long 19th century from multiple perspectives, images from a time during which the subcontinent saw a time of transition in...

Research on the Mamluk period has so far remained relatively silent about the Mamluk descendants, who are often referred to by the Arabic term awlad al-nas (roughly: children of the elite). After Ulrich Haarmann's fundamental theses, research on this group seems to have paused, in comparison to the study dedicated to other social groups of Mamluk society. This volume brings together the results of an international conference and presents the s...

The only Arabic voice to have witnessed the Ottoman conquest of Cairo, Ibn Iyas is an eminent historical source for the late Mamluk period. This book is the first to take stock of the author's complete works, approaching him through an examination of his narrative voice and writing strategies. Tracing Ibn Iyas's working process by compilation analysis, it shows how the author adapted his representations of Egyptian history to his writing proje...

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