The Middle East in the Middle Ages by Robert Irwin

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The Middle East in the Middle Ages by Robert Irwin

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The Middle East in the Middle Ages by Robert Irwin

For over two hundred and fifty years the Mamluks ruled one of the great territorial Empires of the Middle Ages, centered on Egypt and Syria and controlling, at times, most of the Middle East.

Irwin now provides the first scholarly history of this period in any Western lan­guage. He makes clear the unique politic­al system of the Mamluks, in which the governing class consisted of a white slave elite. At the zenith of their power, the Mamluks were the only regime to inflict a series of defeats on the Mongols and were able to eliminate the last vestiges of the Crusader states from the Middle East.

The Mamluk sultanate, during which both Islamic Architecture and technolo­gy flourished, was an important epoch in the development of Islam. It was also a period of great growth in trade between Europe and Asia and the flow of scholar­ship from the Arab world to Renaissance Europe.

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ISBN 13 9781597404662
ISBN 10 1597404667
Title The Middle East in the Middle Ages
Author Robert Irwin
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher ACLS History E-Book Project
Year published 2008-11-07
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.