Mamluk History Through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria (Library of Middle East History)

by NasserRabbat (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $203.94

  Analysing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication and documentation as well as a cultural index, this book shows how the buildings mirror the complex - and historically unique - military, political, social and financial structures of Mamluk society. It offers an innovative approach to the history of the Mamluks.