Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric
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- Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent)
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- MMS (The mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate. Political Traditions and State Formation in the 15 Century Egypt and Syria)
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- This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5). It challenges this panegyric’s standard treatment as a work of history and as a product of court propaganda and connects it to wider issues of Mamluk literary production and social organisation. In doing so, a new understanding of this panegyric emerges within a specific context of Mamluk elite communication and social performance, demonstrating at the same time how such a social semiotic reading of Mamluk cultural expressions generates further insights into the symbiotic interactions between Mamluk culture and society.
- Keywords
- social semiotics, social performance, discourse, Mamluk cultural matrix, mujaddid, al-Salih Isma'il, Ibrahim b. al-Qaysarani, Qalawunid dynasty, risalah, panegyrics, Mamluk literature
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-981404
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- Van Steenbergen, Jo. “Qalāwūnid Discourse, Elite Communication and the Mamluk Cultural Matrix: Interpreting a 14th-Century Panegyric.” JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE, vol. 43, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1–28, doi:10.1163/157006412X629755.
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- Van Steenbergen, J. (2012). Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric. JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE, 43(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006412X629755
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- Van Steenbergen, Jo. 2012. “Qalāwūnid Discourse, Elite Communication and the Mamluk Cultural Matrix: Interpreting a 14th-Century Panegyric.” JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE 43 (1): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006412X629755.
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- Van Steenbergen, Jo. 2012. “Qalāwūnid Discourse, Elite Communication and the Mamluk Cultural Matrix: Interpreting a 14th-Century Panegyric.” JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE 43 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1163/157006412X629755.
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- 1.Van Steenbergen J. Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric. JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE. 2012;43(1):1–28.
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- [1]J. Van Steenbergen, “Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric,” JOURNAL OF ARABIC LITERATURE, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 1–28, 2012.
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keywords = {{social semiotics,social performance,discourse,Mamluk cultural matrix,mujaddid,al-Salih Isma'il,Ibrahim b. al-Qaysarani,Qalawunid dynasty,risalah,panegyrics,Mamluk literature}},
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