Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-97560-6 (ISBN)
David Ayalon Professor of the History of the Islamic Peoples at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The early use of firearms in the Mamluk kingdom; terms used for firearms and gunpowder in contemporary sources - why firearms were called naft, the mukhula and the midfa, the cannon and the manjaniq; the attitude of Mamluk military society toward the use of firearms - firearms in the last decades of Mamluk rule, the casting of cannon under al-Ghawri, the renewal of traditional military training and of furusiya exercises, the creation of a unit of arquebusiers, the black slaves as arquebusiers, the fifth tabaqa, Tumanbay's desperate effort, Ibn Zunbul on the Mamluk attitude toward firearms, other obstacles to the adoption of firearms, socio-psychological antagonism to firearms weighed against other factors, firearms as a decisive factor in shaping the destiny of Western Asia and Egypt; appendices.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.07.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-97560-5 / 1138975605 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-97560-6 / 9781138975606 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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