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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |