Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World by Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World

Library of Middle East History

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

264 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy. From Cairo, where they controlled the medieval spice trade and the holy sites of Christianity and Islam, the Mamluk Sultans-conscious of their humble slave origins-augmented th...

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