Author : David Ayalon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1136277323
This study of firearms analyzes the employment of such weaponry, dated more than 40 years after use in Europe, towards the close of the 1360s.
Author : David Neustadt
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Firearms
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Author : David Ayalon
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : David Ayalon
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004132863
This volume is a collection of studies by leading historians on central aspects of the Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and of Ottoman Egypt (16th-18th century) where the Mamluks survived under the Ottoman suzerainty.
Author : Douglas E. Streusand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429979215
Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran), and the Mughals (ruling the Indian subcontinent). Author Douglas Streusand explains the origins of the three empires; compares the ideological, institutional, military, and economic contributors to their success; and analyzes the causes of their rise, expansion, and ultimate transformation and decline. Streusand depicts the three empires as a part of an integrated international system extending from the Atlantic to the Straits of Malacca, emphasizing both the connections and the conflicts within that system. He presents the empires as complex polities in which Islam is one political and cultural component among many. The treatment of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires incorporates contemporary scholarship, dispels common misconceptions, and provides an excellent platform for further study.
Author : Sharon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004661565
Author : Ya'acov Lev
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004474471
This volume focusses on the interplay between war and society in the Eastern Mediterranean, in a period which witnessed the Arab conquests, the Seljuk invasion, the Crusades, and the Mongol incursions. The military aspects of these momentous events have not been fully discussed so far. For the first time this book offers a synthesis of trends in military technology and its effect on society in the period from the Arab conquests to the establishment of an Ottoman hegemony. War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean provides for medievalists an Oriental context to the military aspects of the Crusades, and for scholars of both Middle Eastern and military history a coherent treatment of an important topic over a long period and covering many different cultures.
Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0300275048
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China’s Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia. In this authoritative account, Peter Jackson traces Tamerlane’s rise to power against the backdrop of the decline of Mongol rule. Jackson argues that Tamerlane, a keen exponent of Mongol custom and tradition, operated in Genghis Khan’s shadow and took care to draw parallels between himself and his great precursor. But, as a Muslim, Tamerlane drew on Islamic traditions, and his waging of wars in the name of jihad, whether sincere or not, had a more powerful impact than those of any Muslim Mongol ruler before him.
Author : Reuven Amitai
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 3847004115
The Mamluk Sultanate represents an extremely interesting case study to examine social, economic and cultural developments in the transition into the rapidly changing modern world. On the one hand, it is the heir of a political and military tradition that goes back hundreds of years, and brought this to a high pitch that enabled astounding victories over serious external threats. On the other hand, as time went on, it was increasingly confronted with "modern" problems that would necessitate fundamental changes in its structure and content. The Mamluk period was one of great religious and social change, and in many ways the modern demographic map was established at this time. This volume shows that the situation of the Mamluk Sultanate was far from that of decadence, and until the end it was a vibrant society (although not without tensions and increasing problems) that did its best to adapt and compete in a rapidly changing world.
