Mamluks, 1250-1517.
Skira, Louvre Museum| N° d'inventaire | 31594 |
| Format | 22.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 340 p., numerous color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517) represents more than two and a half centuries of Near Eastern history, covering a vast territory that included Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, part of eastern Anatolia and the Arabian Peninsula, home to the holy places of Islam. This dynasty, descended from military slaves, forged its legend through its warrior strength and reigned during a particularly fertile period for the arts of Islam. The Mamluks were great builders throughout the empire. In Cairo in particular, they imprinted a strong personality on the urban landscape, with numerous palaces, religious buildings and mausoleums with sumptuous decorations, using virtuoso colored marble marquetry, mosaics, painting and gilding. Through more than 350 objects (manuscripts, furniture, precious objects) the catalogue reveals a plural society – sultans and emirs, religious elite, merchants, Coptic and Jewish minorities – and reveals the intense diplomatic, commercial and artistic relations between the sultanate and its environment, in a medieval world already “connected”.
The Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517) represents more than two and a half centuries of Near Eastern history, covering a vast territory that included Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, part of eastern Anatolia and the Arabian Peninsula, home to the holy places of Islam. This dynasty, descended from military slaves, forged its legend through its warrior strength and reigned during a particularly fertile period for the arts of Islam. The Mamluks were great builders throughout the empire. In Cairo in particular, they imprinted a strong personality on the urban landscape, with numerous palaces, religious buildings and mausoleums with sumptuous decorations, using virtuoso colored marble marquetry, mosaics, painting and gilding. Through more than 350 objects (manuscripts, furniture, precious objects) the catalogue reveals a plural society – sultans and emirs, religious elite, merchants, Coptic and Jewish minorities – and reveals the intense diplomatic, commercial and artistic relations between the sultanate and its environment, in a medieval world already “connected”.