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| | Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society, The Canadian Journal of History - Find Articles |
 | | The conferees invoked the conflation between dynastic succession and change in the identity of ruling elites to divide the period from the 1250s to the 1800s into three phases: a Turkish and Circassian sultanate, Ottoman interregnum, and a "neo-Mamluk" succession. |
 | | The articles are divided into four categories: "Mamluk rule and succession", Mamluk households", "Mamluk culture, science and education", and finally, "Mamluk property, geography and urban society." The Turkish and Circassian phase (1250-- 1517) corresponds to "Mamluk rule and succession" par excellence, whereas "Mamluk households" covers the "neo-Mamluk" regime. |
 | | Being Mamluk is predicated on control of power, "reproduction by recruitment from abroad," and "permanent" separation from "ruled subjects." Access to power underlines either the generational gap between the ruling foreign born and their disenfranchised sons or the hierarchical chasm separating the "amir class" from "rank and file" proteges (Levanoni, Richards, Haarman). |
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