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  • Print publication year: 2006
  • Online publication date: March 2008

8 - Mamluk history and historians

from Part II - Elite prose
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The Mamluk sultan Qānsūh al-Ghūrī used to preside over twice-weekly soirées. Earlier Mamluk sultans and amirs took an active interest in the production of chronicles. The Syrian approach to history-writing was an aspect of the Sunni revival, whose antecedents were in Baghdad and most specifically in the historical writing of Ibn al-Jawzī, a Hanbali preacher in that city. The Mir'āt's emphasis and organization were copied by later Syrian 'ulamā' and also influenced the court chroniclers of Egypt and other historians. The support of the Syrian 'ulamā' historians for Ibn Taymiyya in his struggles with his enemies among the Mamluk military elite and the Sufi shaykhs suggests some detachment from the values of the Mamluk court and administration. Al-Subkī warned that historians stood on the brink of a precarious sand dune. Historians used invented dialogues in order to explain policy-making and conflict among the elite.

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