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. 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 11, Number 2 of Mamluk Studies Review is available as of July, 2007.
Included in the contents of this issue are:

• Articles
  • Yossef Rapoport, Women and Gender in Mamluk Society: An Overview
  • Howayda Al-Harithy, The Four Madrasahs in the Complex of Sultan Hasan (1356–61):The Complete Survey
  • Patrick Wing, The Decline of the Ilkhanate and the Mamluk Sultanate’s Eastern Frontier
  • Denise Aigle, The Mongol Invasions of Bilad al-Sham by Ghazan Khan and Ibn Taymiyah’s Three “Anti-Mongol” Fatwas
  • Stephan Conermann and Tilman Seidensticker, Some Remarks on Ibn Tawq’s (d. 915/1509) Journal Al-Ta'liq, vol. 1 (885/1480 to 890/1485)
  • Thomas Bauer, In Search of “Post-Classical Literature”: A Review Article
• Book Reviews
  • Al-Mawa'iz wa-al-I'tibar fi Dhikr al-Khitat wa-al-Athar li-Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Qadir al-Maqrizi, vols. 1–2, edited by Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid (Frédéric Bauden)
  • 'Ali ibn Dawud al-Jawhari al-Sayrafi, Inba' al-Hasr bi-Abna' al-'Asr, 2nd ed., edited by Hasan Habashi (Stephan Conermann)
  • Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies (John Rodenbeck)
  • Sirat al-Malik al-Zahir Baybars hasb al-Riwayah al-Shamiyah, edited by Jurj Buhas and Katya Zakhariya (Li Guo)
  • Sa'ib 'Abd al-Hamid, 'Ilm al-Tarikh wa-Manahij al-Mu'arrikhin: fi 'Ilm al-Tarikh Nash’atan wa-Tadwinan wa-Naqdan wa-Falsafatan wa-Manahij Kibar Mu'arrikhi al-Islam (June Dahy)
  • Stiftungen in Christentum, Judentum und Islam vor der Moderne: Auf der Suche nach ihren Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden in religiösen Grundlagen, praktischen Zwecken und historischen Transformationen, edited by Michael Borgolte (Albrecht Fuess)
  • Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages, edited by Niall Christie and Maya Yazigi (Walter Kaegi)
  • Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honour of Michael Winter, edited by David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon (W. W. Clifford)
  • Nicholas Warner, The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View (John Rodenbeck)
  • Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, Kawkab al-Rawdah fi Tarikh al-Nil wa-Jazirat al-Rawdah, edited by Muhammad al-Shishtawi (Stephan Conermann)

Previous Issues of Mamluk Studies Review are available.

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