New Diplomatic History and Mamluk Studies: Challenges and Possibilities

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Mamluks, Islam, Connected History, Diplomacy

Abstract

While Mamluk scholars have increasingly studied on the diplomatic relations established between the sultanate and its various correspondents in both the Christian, Mongol and Muslim worlds, they have followed first the traditional diplomatic approach devoted to the study of peace and commercial treaties. More recently they have started distancing themselves from this approach to concentrate on questions of rituals, symbolic and non-verbal communication and various agents involved in the diplomatic process. This was however done without relating to broader methodological framework such as the one proposed by the New Diplomatic History (NDH). In this paper, I therefore would like to link those developments to the NDH and analyze what is, in that historiographic trend, relevant for the source material available in our field. Furthermore, I would like to link the NDH to another methodological approach that I see essential for our field, that of the connected history.

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Malika Dekkiche, Università di Anversa

Malika Dekkiche is associate professor at the University of Antwerp. Her research has been focusing on intra-Muslim diplomatic contacts in the late middle period, especially between the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo and post-Mongol dynasties. She has focused her research on the semiotics involved in those contacts. She is currently (co-)supervising the EOS funded project DiplomatiCon, A Connected History of Mediterranean Diplomacy (14th-15th centuries). She is the co-editor of the volume Mamluk Cairo. A Crossroad for Embassies (Brill, 2019) and she currently finishing her book Keeping the Peace in Premodern Islam (EUP).

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2023/12/31

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Dekkiche, M. 2023. New Diplomatic History and Mamluk Studies: Challenges and Possibilities . CESURA - Rivista. 2, 2 (Dec. 2023), 133–166.

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): CESURA - Rivista, 2/2 (2023)

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