caa a22 4500 388101482 CHVBK 20180307125322.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800054027 doi S0020743800054027 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800054027 Wiederhold Lutz Lutz Wiederhold is Middle East Librarian, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 06098 Halle, Germany. Legal-Religious Elite, Temporal Authority, and the Caliphate in Mamluk Society: Conclusions Drawn from the Examination of a "Zahiri Revolt” in Damascus in 1386 [Elektronische Daten] [Lutz Wiederhold] The following study is aimed at describing social, political, and religious aspects of Mamluk society in the context of a political disturbance in Damascus in 1386. It is mainly based on historiographical and prosopographical evidence. Readers who are familiar with medieval Islamic chronicles and biographical dictionaries will know that these sources do not provide satisfactory answers to all the questions concerning the socio-political structure of Islamic societies as raised by modern scholarship. Nevertheless, the information collected in the course of our examination will permit us to draw conclusions concerning three major issues of Mamluk and Islamic history, respectively: Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 203-235 0020-7438 31:2<203 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wiederhold Lutz Lutz Wiederhold is Middle East Librarian, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 06098 Halle, Germany NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 203-235 0020-7438 31:2<203 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge