Mamluk City in the Middle East - History, Culture, and the Urban Landscape

Informationen zum Autor Dr Nimrod Luz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Western Galilee College, Israel. Klappentext An interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the nature of urbanism under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). Zusammenfassung The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), focusing on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon). Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Urban regional history before the Mamluks: presenting Tripoli, Safad, and Jerusalem; Part II. The Tangible City: 2. Reading the built environment: a field survey of Mamluk Jerusalem; 3. Houses and residential solutions in the cities of al-Sham; 4. The neighborhood: social and spatial expressions; Part III. The Socially Constructed City: 5. Awq¿f and urban infrastructures; 6. Icons of power and expressions of religious piety: the politics of Mamluk patronage; Part IV. The Conceptualized City: 7. Cities scripted, envisioned, and perceived; 8. The public sphere - urban autonomy and its limitations.

Product details

• Authors: Nimrod Luz, Luz Nimrod
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2016
• EAN: 9781107626713
• ISBN: 978-1-107-62671-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Social & cultural history, Middle East, Middle Eastern history, Urban communities