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Mamluk Studies Review 25, 2022
Introduction to special issue of Mamluk Studies Review, for which I was guest editor, featuring s... more Introduction to special issue of Mamluk Studies Review, for which I was guest editor, featuring scholarship from the EGYLandscape Project.
Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning, 2022
Living with Nature and Things: Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods, 2020
Fien De Block Timekeeper-Teachers and their Discursive Instruments:AMaterial Approach to Al-Jā mi... more Fien De Block Timekeeper-Teachers and their Discursive Instruments:AMaterial Approach to Al-Jā miʿ al-mufī dfī bayā nuṡū lal-taqwī mwa-l-mawā l ī d ..683 Yehoshua Frenkel The Contribution of European Travel Literature to the Study of the Environmental History of the Levant (13 th-15 th centuries
A growing body of scholarship regarding the nature of book production and ownership has greatly a... more A growing body of scholarship regarding the nature of book production and ownership has greatly aided in advancing understandings of the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle East. The majority of these studies, however, focuses on the technical and art historical aspects of book production. This article seeks to take such scholarship a step further and explore the nature of the actual places where books were obtained in Mamluk and Ottoman Cairo. Using chronicles and annalistic sources, it will show that the traditionally understood paper markets had a far more extensive role in book production. Furthermore, the article will show that multiple centers in medieval Cairo were engaged in various tasks related to the creation of texts. A discussion of the extant corpus of secondary literature will be offered on the basis of these conclusions.
Eurasian Studies 15(2), 2017
Introduction Family history has become one of the most stimulating fields in Middle Eastern studi... more Introduction Family history has become one of the most stimulating fields in Middle Eastern studies during the last two decades. Since 2015, the French-German research project Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East, 15th-17th centuries (DYNTRAN) has attempted to contribute to and further this recent tradition. By initiating an interdisciplinary dialogue between historical and textual studies with art history, and by setting out to bridge the gaps between Mamluk, Ottoman, Persian, and Central Asian area studies, the project seeks to identify dynamics of family and family-like transmission networks and patterns on the macro-scale of the Muslim Middle-East during the late mediaeval and the beginning of the early modern period. The DYNTRAN project is a collaboration of the Centrum für Nah-und Mittelost-Studien of the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Research Laboratory UMR 7528 Mondes iranien et indien of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), with the partnership of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) in Cairo. It is jointly funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, WE/2587-01) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, FRAL-14-0009-01). This special issue of Eurasian Studies gathers a selection of DYNTRAN midterm results, proceeding from a series of workshops held at the University
Excavation and survey reports from Egypt make regular reference to sabakhīn digging and its disru... more Excavation and survey reports from Egypt make regular reference to sabakhīn digging and its disruption of the archaeological site's stratigraphy. This search for agricultural ertiliier, and the resulting destruction oo stratiied conteets, was commonplace throughout Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries. The appreciation, however, of the alue oo saltt and nitrogennrich sediments ooten ound in ancient ruins is speciically attested in medieval manuals that address issues of agricultural soil quality in Egypt. The exploitation of ruins has likely been a long, ongoing process in Egypt's history, much to the detriment of studying the medieval period from an archaeological perspective. Particularly disturbed, in many cases, are the most readily available layers at or near the surface, which contain evidence of Egypt's more recent past. In light of this history of disruption and the interpretation of sibākh in archaeological contexts, our view of late antique and medieval occupation in Egypt should be reconsidered, or perhaps, reimagined.
MA Thesis by Anthony T Quickel
The wealth of Cairo’s markets throughout the Mamlūk period is well attested in the sources. From ... more The wealth of Cairo’s markets throughout the Mamlūk period is well attested in the sources. From roving peddlers to stationary markets, the city’s food supply was a testament to Egypt’s agricultural bounty. This study attempts to understand the food economy that provisioned these food markets. In doing so, Egypt’s agricultural production, its transportation network, distribution system, and Cairo’s markets are discussed with a focus towards understanding both the nature of the many aspects of the Mamūk food economy as well as the changes occurring within it. In providing an overall description of the mechanisms by which the Mamlūk food economy functioned, this thesis argues that the structure of the system was an ongoing dialectic between the labor and efforts of the peasants, the activities of the food merchants and sellers, and the contrivances of those with power, especially the Mamlūk regime itself. The complexities of this system were not only influenced by the activities of these three groups but were also driven by environmental and geographic factors as well. When all of these factors worked in concert, an intricate, multi-layered system produced the abundance and wealth of Cairo’s markets that were evident for all to see. However, the effects of the plague, starting in the fourteenth century CE, combined with the labor-intensive nature of the Egyptian agricultural and transportation systems disrupted this multiplex system. The agricultural sector being key to the overall Mamlūk economy, this breakdown created the conditions from which the agricultural system and, correspondingly, the economy failed to recover.
Syllabi by Anthony T Quickel
Syllabus for my "Survey of Arab History" course, which was taught in the Spring 2016, Fall 2017, ... more Syllabus for my "Survey of Arab History" course, which was taught in the Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, and Fall 2021 semesters at the American University in Cairo.
Books by Anthony T Quickel
Mamluk Studies Review 25, 2022
Special
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Mamluk Studies Review 25, 2022
Introduction to special issue of Mamluk Studies Review, for which I was guest editor, featuring s... more Introduction to special issue of Mamluk Studies Review, for which I was guest editor, featuring scholarship from the EGYLandscape Project.
Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning, 2022
Living with Nature and Things: Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods, 2020
Fien De Block Timekeeper-Teachers and their Discursive Instruments:AMaterial Approach to Al-Jā mi... more Fien De Block Timekeeper-Teachers and their Discursive Instruments:AMaterial Approach to Al-Jā miʿ al-mufī dfī bayā nuṡū lal-taqwī mwa-l-mawā l ī d ..683 Yehoshua Frenkel The Contribution of European Travel Literature to the Study of the Environmental History of the Levant (13 th-15 th centuries
A growing body of scholarship regarding the nature of book production and ownership has greatly a... more A growing body of scholarship regarding the nature of book production and ownership has greatly aided in advancing understandings of the intellectual and cultural history of the Middle East. The majority of these studies, however, focuses on the technical and art historical aspects of book production. This article seeks to take such scholarship a step further and explore the nature of the actual places where books were obtained in Mamluk and Ottoman Cairo. Using chronicles and annalistic sources, it will show that the traditionally understood paper markets had a far more extensive role in book production. Furthermore, the article will show that multiple centers in medieval Cairo were engaged in various tasks related to the creation of texts. A discussion of the extant corpus of secondary literature will be offered on the basis of these conclusions.
Eurasian Studies 15(2), 2017
Introduction Family history has become one of the most stimulating fields in Middle Eastern studi... more Introduction Family history has become one of the most stimulating fields in Middle Eastern studies during the last two decades. Since 2015, the French-German research project Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East, 15th-17th centuries (DYNTRAN) has attempted to contribute to and further this recent tradition. By initiating an interdisciplinary dialogue between historical and textual studies with art history, and by setting out to bridge the gaps between Mamluk, Ottoman, Persian, and Central Asian area studies, the project seeks to identify dynamics of family and family-like transmission networks and patterns on the macro-scale of the Muslim Middle-East during the late mediaeval and the beginning of the early modern period. The DYNTRAN project is a collaboration of the Centrum für Nah-und Mittelost-Studien of the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Research Laboratory UMR 7528 Mondes iranien et indien of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), with the partnership of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) in Cairo. It is jointly funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, WE/2587-01) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, FRAL-14-0009-01). This special issue of Eurasian Studies gathers a selection of DYNTRAN midterm results, proceeding from a series of workshops held at the University
Excavation and survey reports from Egypt make regular reference to sabakhīn digging and its disru... more Excavation and survey reports from Egypt make regular reference to sabakhīn digging and its disruption of the archaeological site's stratigraphy. This search for agricultural ertiliier, and the resulting destruction oo stratiied conteets, was commonplace throughout Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries. The appreciation, however, of the alue oo saltt and nitrogennrich sediments ooten ound in ancient ruins is speciically attested in medieval manuals that address issues of agricultural soil quality in Egypt. The exploitation of ruins has likely been a long, ongoing process in Egypt's history, much to the detriment of studying the medieval period from an archaeological perspective. Particularly disturbed, in many cases, are the most readily available layers at or near the surface, which contain evidence of Egypt's more recent past. In light of this history of disruption and the interpretation of sibākh in archaeological contexts, our view of late antique and medieval occupation in Egypt should be reconsidered, or perhaps, reimagined.
The wealth of Cairo’s markets throughout the Mamlūk period is well attested in the sources. From ... more The wealth of Cairo’s markets throughout the Mamlūk period is well attested in the sources. From roving peddlers to stationary markets, the city’s food supply was a testament to Egypt’s agricultural bounty. This study attempts to understand the food economy that provisioned these food markets. In doing so, Egypt’s agricultural production, its transportation network, distribution system, and Cairo’s markets are discussed with a focus towards understanding both the nature of the many aspects of the Mamūk food economy as well as the changes occurring within it. In providing an overall description of the mechanisms by which the Mamlūk food economy functioned, this thesis argues that the structure of the system was an ongoing dialectic between the labor and efforts of the peasants, the activities of the food merchants and sellers, and the contrivances of those with power, especially the Mamlūk regime itself. The complexities of this system were not only influenced by the activities of these three groups but were also driven by environmental and geographic factors as well. When all of these factors worked in concert, an intricate, multi-layered system produced the abundance and wealth of Cairo’s markets that were evident for all to see. However, the effects of the plague, starting in the fourteenth century CE, combined with the labor-intensive nature of the Egyptian agricultural and transportation systems disrupted this multiplex system. The agricultural sector being key to the overall Mamlūk economy, this breakdown created the conditions from which the agricultural system and, correspondingly, the economy failed to recover.
Syllabus for my "Survey of Arab History" course, which was taught in the Spring 2016, Fall 2017, ... more Syllabus for my "Survey of Arab History" course, which was taught in the Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, and Fall 2021 semesters at the American University in Cairo.
Mamluk Studies Review 25, 2022
Special