Qalāwūnid Discourse, Elite Communication and the Mamluk Cultural Matrix: Interpreting a 14th-Century Panegyric.

Abstract This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al-Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-āli Ismāīl (r. 1342-5). It challenges this panegyric's standard treatment as a work of history an...

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Published in:	Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 1 - 29
Main Author:	Steenbergen, Jo Van
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2012
Subjects:	Laudatory poetry Poetry (Literary form) Classical laudatory poetry Culture Arabic literature
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