This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalwkn (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf (1290-93), which cover the end of the Crusader interlude in the Syrian Levant.
Translated from the original Arabic, these chronicles detail the Mamluk perception of the Crusaders, the Mongol menace, how this menace was confronted, and a wealth of materials about the Mediterranean basin in the late thirteenth century. Treaties, battles, sieges and embassies are all revealed in these chronicles, most of which have not been translated previously.
The translated texts provide a range of historical records concerning Qalwkn and al-Ashraf,
and include the court perspective of Ibn `Abd al-?hir, the later biography by his nephew Shaf+`, and the writings of the Mamluk historian Baybars al-Manskr+.
Introduction; Text 1a. Ibn `Abd al-?hir, Tashr+f al-ayym wa-l-`uckr f+ s+rat al-Malik al-Manckr; Text 1b. Ibn `Abd al-?hir, al-Almf al-khafiyya min al-s+ra al-shar+fa al-sulmniyya al-malikiyya al-ashrafiyya (selections); Text 2. al-Ashrafs treaty with Jaime II of Aragon; Text 3. al-Shaf+` b. `Al+, al-Fal al-mathkr fi s+rat al-Malik al-Manckr (selections); Text 4a. Baybars al-Manckr+, Zubdat al-fikra; Text 4b. Baybars al-Manckr+, al-Tu%fa al-mulkkiyya fi al-dawla al-Turkiyya; Text 4c. Baybars al-Manckr+, Mukhtrt al-akhbr
This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalwkn (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf (1290-93), which cover the end of the Crusader interlude in the Syrian Levant.
David Cook is professor of religion at Rice University, US. His areas of specialisation include early Islamic history and development, Muslim apocalyptic literature, radical IsllãË
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