Mamluk Studies Review is a biannual refereed journal published by the Middle East Documentation Center devoted to the study of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria (648-922/1250-1517). It appears in January and July.

NEW: As of Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 2009), the journal is being published electronically and is available for free to all interested readers. To view or download MSR, visit http://mamluk.uchicago.edu and follow the links. Back issues are still available as bound volumes.

The goals of Mamluk Studies Review are to take stock of scholarship devoted to the Mamluk era, nurture communication within the field, and to promote further research by encouraging the critical discussion of all aspects of this important medieval Islamic polity. The journal will include both articles and reviews of recent books. Submissions of original work on any aspect of the field are welcome, although the editorial board will periodically issue volumes devoted to specific issues and themes. Mamluk Studies Review also solicits edited texts and translations of shorter Arabic source materials (waqf deeds, letters, fatawa and the like), and encourages discussions of Mamluk era artifacts (pottery, coins, etc.) that place these resources in wider contexts.

Authors interested in submitting work for publication in Mamluk Studies Review should refer to the downloadable Editorial and Style Guidelines. All authors are asked to compose articles using current word-processing software and Unicode fonts. For more information about installing and using Unicode (and for links to free downloadable fonts and keyboard layouts designed for typing with diacritics) please see MEDOC's Unicode page: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/encyclopedia/unicode.html. For information about typing in Arabic on Windows computers, see the links on the MEDOC home page: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/
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The Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies, carrying a cash award of $1,000, is given annually by Mamluk Studies Review for the best dissertation on a topic related to the Mamluk Sultanate submitted to an American or Canadian university during the preceding calendar year.

Previous Issues of Mamluk Studies Review are available.

Volume 13, Number 1 of Mamluk Studies Review is available as of January, 2009, free of charge. Read or download the PDF file at http://mamluk.uchicago.edu.
Included in the contents of this issue are:

• Articles
  • Yaacov Lev, Symbiotic Relations: Ulama and the Mamluk Sultans
  • Igarashi Daisuke, The Financial Reforms of Sultan Qaytbay
  • Frederic Bauden, The Sons of al-Nasir Muhammad and the Politics of Puppets: Where Did It All Start?
  • Bethany J. Walker, The Tribal Dimension in Mamluk-Jordanian Relations
  • Antonella Ghersetti, An Unpublished Anthology of the Mamluk Period on Generosity and Generous Men
  • Albrecht Fuess, Zulm by Mazalim? The Political Implications Of the Use of Mazalim Jurisdiction by the Mamluk Sultans
  • Yehoshua Frenkel, Awqaf in Mamluk Bilad al-Sham
• Book Reviews
  • Li Guo, Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Documents from Quseir (Frederic Bauden)
  • `Abd al-Rahman Mudayris al-Mudayris, Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah fi al-`Asr al-Mamluki (648–923 H./1250–1517 M.): Dirasah Tarikhiyah (John L. Meloy)
  • Jon Hoover, Ibn Taymiyya’s Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism (Caterina Bori)
  • Sami G. Massoud, The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period (Paulina B. Lewicka)
  • Bernadette Martel-Thoumian, Catalogue des manuscrits historiques de la Bibliotheque nationale de Damas: Periode mamlouke (Rene-Vincent du Grandlaunay)
  • Yossef Rapoport, Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society (Li Guo)
  • Caterina Bori, Ibn Taymiyya: una vita esemplare: Analisi delle fonti classiche della sua biografia (Aram Shahin)

Previous Issues of Mamluk Studies Review are available.

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