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Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200-1500

Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200-1500 92 BOOK REVIEWS guide to medieval commerce in the region more generally. Had it been more focused and more carefully edited, it could also have been more approachable for the reader. Alasdair C. Grant University of Edinburgh alasdair.grant@ed.ac.uk © 2021 Alasdair C. Grant https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.1877421 Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200-1500, Jan Hinrich Hagedorn [Mamluk Studies, volume 21], Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Bonn: Bonn University Press (2020), 245 pp., ill., €32.99/US $44.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9783847110910 While Mamluk era slavery remains understudied, existing work on the topic has focused on military slaves in particular, and considerably little scholarly attention has been given to the place of domestic slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate. Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt sheds new light on the lives of slaves who were acquired by households. This impor- tant addition to the field also contributes to the discussion of the relational nature between masters and slaves in Mamluk society; most historians of the Mamluk Sultanate emphasise the importance of “fictive kinship” relationships between military slaves and their patrons, while Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt questions the extent to which family-like relations applied to masters and slaves in the household. Jan Hinrich Hagedorn, an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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92 BOOK REVIEWS guide to medieval commerce in the region more generally. Had it been more focused and more carefully edited, it could also have been more approachable for the reader. Alasdair C. Grant University of Edinburgh alasdair.grant@ed.ac.uk © 2021 Alasdair C. Grant https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.1877421 Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200-1500, Jan Hinrich Hagedorn [Mamluk Studies, volume 21], Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Bonn: Bonn University Press...
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92 BOOK REVIEWS guide to medieval commerce in the region more generally. Had it been more focused and more carefully edited, it could also have been more approachable for the reader. Alasdair C. Grant University of Edinburgh alasdair.grant@ed.ac.uk © 2021 Alasdair C. Grant https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2021.1877421 Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200-1500, Jan Hinrich Hagedorn [Mamluk Studies, volume 21], Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Bonn: Bonn University Press (2020), 245 pp., ill., €32.99/US $44.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9783847110910 While Mamluk era slavery remains understudied, existing work on the topic has focused on military slaves in particular, and considerably little scholarly attention has been given to the place of domestic slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate. Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt sheds new light on the lives of slaves who were acquired by households. This impor- tant addition to the field also contributes to the discussion of the relational nature between masters and slaves in Mamluk society; most historians of the Mamluk Sultanate emphasise the importance of “fictive kinship” relationships between military slaves and their patrons, while Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt questions the extent to which family-like relations applied to masters and slaves in the household. Jan Hinrich Hagedorn, an

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