1st Edition
A History of Diplomacy, Spatiality, and Islamic Ideals
Introducing Space to Diplomacy
Malika Dekkiche
Part 1: Islamic Sovereignty and Territorial Claims
1. Between Emir and Rey Moro: Bahāʾ al-Dawla b. Hūd and the Question of Sovereignty in Seventh-/Thirteenth-Century Murcia
Anthony Minnema
2. From the “Sultan of Islam” to the “Realms of the World”: Lists of Rulers, Politics of Scale, and Claims to Sovereignty in Ninth-/Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Chronicles
Jo Van Steenbergen
Part 2: Experience of Islamic Territory
3. Pepper from the Sultan: Commercial Diplomacy from Below in Mamlūk Damascus (1418)
Georg Christ
4. The End of the Renaissance: Ambrosio Bembo and the ‘Limits’ of Ottoman Space
Palmira Brummett
Part 3: Islamic Legacy and Ideals
5. A Scribe’s Realm: Islamic Ideals of Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Peter Kitlas
6. Itineracy, Homecoming, and Territory in the Maghrib over the Longue Durée
Samuel Kigar
Biography
Malika Dekkiche is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on Muslim diplomatic contacts in the thirteenth–sixteenth centuries, chancery practices, and religious patronage. She is the co-editor of the volume Mamluk Cairo. A Crossroad for Embassies (2019).
