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Bethany Walker - Jordan in the Late Middle Ages - 9780970819970 - V9780970819970
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Jordan in the Late Middle Ages

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Description for Jordan in the Late Middle Ages Hardback. This book explores the transformation of the Mamluk state from the perspective of the Jordanian frontier, considering the actions of local people in molding both the state and their own societies in the post-plague era. Series: Chicago Studies on the Middle East. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBLC1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 722.


The decline of the Mamluk Sultanate from the late fourteenth century is an important component of the larger transformation of the late medieval Levant. In this centralized state, the Mamluks political culture has traditionally been defined by that of the imperial capital of Cairo. The political decline of the sultanate in Cairo has, then, come to define the many-faceted transformations of the entire region with the waning of the medieval era. The dynamics of change far from Cairo, in remote settlements on the imperial frontier, are, by contrast, relatively unknown.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Chicago, Middle East Documentation Center United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Series
Chicago Studies on the Middle East
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
IL, United States
ISBN
9780970819970
SKU
V9780970819970
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About Bethany Walker
Bethany Walker is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Missouri State University. She has published widely on Mamluk and Ottoman socio-economic history and material culture in primarily American and French journals. A historian and archaeologist, she directs two archaeological projects in Jordan and for the last twenty years has been doing fieldwork at sites throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Her ... Read more

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