The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517: Out of the Shadows

Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public and private lives of the 18 men invested as caliphs during the period of 'Mamluk' rule in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) and reveals a nuanced understanding of the Abbasid Caliphate according to elite members of Syro-Egyptian society. In doing so, he addresses the function of the caliph and his office amidst the breakdown and recreation of each new socio-political order of the sultanate.

Author: Mustafa Banister
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9781474453370
ISBN10: 1474453376
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | Egypt (see also Ancient | Egypt)
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | Islam | History

About the Author

Mustafa Banister is a post-doctoral researcher in Arabic Historiography at Ghent University, Belgium. He obtained a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015 and then spent several years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bonn and Ghent University. Banister has published articles in the Mamlūk Studies Review and a chapter in Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam edited by Sebastian Günther (Brill, 2020). His current research focuses on the historiographical writing of the Syro-Egyptian litterateur Aḥmad ibn 'Arabshāh (d. 1450).