@article{4250616,
  abstract     = {{The diplomatic relationships between the Mamluks and the Timurids have always been seen and studied mostly according to the accounts transmitted by contemporary works written by sholars or historians. In this article, Dekkiche presents a new source, still unpublished, that belongs to the chancery literature and that is of major interest for the study of the diplomatic exchanges that occurred between the Timurids and the Mamluks around the mid-fifteenth century: ms. ar. 4440 (BnF, Paris). In the first part of the article, Dekkiche presents the manuscript itself (contents and interests) and a short overview of the relationships between the two dynasties from the beginning of the fifteenth century and Timur Lang’s conquest of Syria (803/1400), before setting ms. ar. 4440’s corpus in its historical context. The second part of the article is entirely devoted to diplomatics. After a theoretical introduction on the meaning and the interests of this discipline for the study of diplomatic exchanges, she evaluates the different aspects of the letter-writing rules established by the Mamluk chancery that help to establish the correspondents’ status. Finally, Dekkiche compares these rules to the letters kept in ms. ar. 4440. We can observe that not only are the rules perfectly respected, but also that they give a comprehensive picture of how Mamluk rulers were perceiving their Timurid correspondents compared to others Eastern rulers.}},
  author       = {{Dekkiche, Malika}},
  issn         = {{1722-0750}},
  journal      = {{EURASIAN STUDIES (ROMA)}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{131--160}},
  title        = {{Correspondence between Mamluks and Timurids in the fifteenth century : an unpublished corpus of official letters (BNF, MS. AR. 4440)1}},
  volume       = {{11}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}