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The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate II: historiography, political order and state formation in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITEIT GENT Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 website: http://www.ugent.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Belgium [BE]
Project website	http://www.mamluk.ugent.be/MMS_II
Total cost	2˙000˙000 €
EC max contribution	2˙000˙000 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2015-CoG
Funding Scheme	ERC-COG
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-01-01 to 2021-12-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT GENT UNIVERSITEIT GENT Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 website: http://www.ugent.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (GENT)	coordinator	2˙000˙000.00

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Project objective

MMS-II pursues the hypothesis that the Mamluk sultanate was a cultural product constructed in the interaction between state formation and historiography. MMS-II follows up from the ERC-project MMS' focus on the social production of power networks in the Syro-Egyptian sultanate between the 1410s and 1460s, but it does so by directing the themes of political history and Arabic historiography towards entirely new, unexplored horizons. Current understanding of the late medieval Middle East continues to rely heavily on the rich Arabic historiographical production of the period. However, the particular nature, impact and value of this highly politicized historiography remains hugely underexplored and underestimated. MMS-II aims to remedy this, by arguing with and beyond instead of against or outside of this historiography’s subjectivities. It wants to understand its texts as products of particular socio-cultural practices and, at the same time, as a particular type of actors in such practices. Analytically, state formation will be prioritised as one extremely relevant patterned set of effects of such practices. Heuristically, the project will focus on practices related to claims of historical truth and order, asking how Arabic historiographical texts written between the 1410s and the 1460s related to the regularly changing social orders that were produced around the different sultans of these decades. My main hypothesis is that of these texts' active participation in the construction of a particular social memory of one longstanding sultanate of military slaves (‘Mamlukisation’). MMS-II has three specific objectives: the creation of a reference tool for Arabic historiographical texts from the period 1410-1470; the in-depth study of particular sets of these texts; the analysis of political vocabularies in these texts. By thus exploring the inter-subjective re/production of Arabic historiography MMS-II will generate a welcome cultural turn in late medieval Islamic history.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Jo Van Steenbergen, Stijn Van Nieuwenhuyse Truth and Politics in Late Medieval Arabic Historiography: the Formation of Sultan BarsbÄyâ€™s State (1422â€’1438) and the Narratives of the Amir QurqumÄs al-ShaÊ¿bÄnÄ« (d. 1438) published pages: 147-187, ISSN: 0021-1818, DOI: 10.1515/islam-2018-0006	Der Islam 95/1	2019-06-18

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