Mamluk diplomacy: state of the art
(2019)
Mamluk Cairo : a crossroads for embassies.
In Islamic History and Civilization
161.
p.105-182
- Author
- Malika Dekkiche (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- Unlike its European counterparts, the fields of Islamic diplomacy and diplomatics have long been neglected. On one hand, because of the nature of Islamic international law, ruled by the holy war, diplomacy was very often seen solely as being a means to practice jihād and thus was never really studied for itself. For this reason, scholars mostly focused their attention on particular cases of the use of diplomacy in a context of war or tensions, or on specific cases of diplomatic relationships between no more than two political entities. It is why we do not possess any general study of the means and the use of diplomacy in the Islamic world. On the other hand, the field of Arabo-Islamic diplomatics has not received the amount of scholarly attention that it deserves because of the apparent shortage of original documents before the Ottoman domination of Arabic lands (as from the 16th century). Although this may be true for some ealier periods, we are more fortune in later times, like the pre-modern period for which we possess several important private collections kept in religious institutions, along with many copies of administrative documents transmitted by chancery manual and formularies. In this article, Dekkiche presents the state of the art of Mamluk diplomacy and diplomatics. After discussing the reasons for the schorlarly neglect in that field, she investigates the available solutions to fill the gap. She then reviews past scholarships in these two areas and stresses those that still need to be given attention. Finally, Dekkiche lists a series of new unpublished materials to be investigated.
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- MLA
- Dekkiche, Malika. “Mamluk Diplomacy: State of the Art.” Mamluk Cairo : A Crossroads for Embassies, edited by Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche, vol. 161, Brill, 2019, pp. 105–82.
- APA
- Dekkiche, M. (2019). Mamluk diplomacy: state of the art. In F. Bauden & M. Dekkiche (Eds.), Mamluk Cairo : a crossroads for embassies (Vol. 161, pp. 105–182). Brill.
- Chicago author-date
- Dekkiche, Malika. 2019. “Mamluk Diplomacy: State of the Art.” In Mamluk Cairo : A Crossroads for Embassies, edited by Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche, 161:105–82. Brill.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Dekkiche, Malika. 2019. “Mamluk Diplomacy: State of the Art.” In Mamluk Cairo : A Crossroads for Embassies, ed by. Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche, 161:105–182. Brill.
- Vancouver
- 1.Dekkiche M. Mamluk diplomacy: state of the art. In: Bauden F, Dekkiche M, editors. Mamluk Cairo : a crossroads for embassies. Brill; 2019. p. 105–82.
- IEEE
- [1]M. Dekkiche, “Mamluk diplomacy: state of the art,” in Mamluk Cairo : a crossroads for embassies, vol. 161, F. Bauden and M. Dekkiche, Eds. Brill, 2019, pp. 105–182.
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