Baybars’ Successors: Ibn al-Furāt on Qalāwūn and al-Ashraf

307 Pages·2020·10.354 MB·English

by  David Cook

BAYBARS’ SUCCESSORS
Ibn al-Furāt (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials
for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for
the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text
provides both an overview and a critique of earlier historians, and supplies us
with a large number of unique documents, treaties, and intimate discussions
that are not to be found elsewhere. This translation provides a continuous
narrative from 1277 until the assassination of al-Malik al-Ashraf in 1293,
with selections from Ibn al-Furat’s later entries concerning the Crusades until
1365.
David Cook is professor of religion at Rice University, U.S. His areas of
specialization include early Islamic history and development, Muslim
apocalyptic literature, radical Islam, historical astronomy, and Judeo-Arabic
literature. His previous publications include “The Book of Tribulations”: The
Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition: An Annotated Translation by Nu`aym b.
Hammad al-Marwazi (2017).
CRUSADE TEXTS IN TRANSLATION
Editorial Board
Malcolm Barber (Reading), Peter Edbury (Cardiff),
Norman Housley (Leicester), Peter Jackson (Keele)
The crusading movement, which originated in the 11th century and lasted
beyond the 16th, bequeathed to its future historians a legacy of sources that
are unrivalled in their range and variety. These sources document in fascinating
detail the motivations and viewpoints, military efforts, and spiritual lives, of
the participants in the crusades. They also narrate the internal histories of
the states and societies that crusaders established or supported in the many
regions where they fought. Some of these sources have been translated in the
past but the vast majority have been available only in their original language.
The goal of this series is to provide a wide-ranging corpus of texts, most of
them translated for the first time, which will illuminate the history of the
crusades and the crusader-states from every angle, including that of their
principal adversaries, the Muslim powers of the Middle East.
Titles in the series include
Keagan Brewer and James H. Kane
The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn
Graham Loud
The Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck
Carol Sweetenham
The Chanson des Chétifs and Chanson de Jérusalem
Anne Van Arsdall and Helen Moody
The Old French Chronicle of Morea
Keagan Brewer
Prester John: The Legend and its Sources
Martin Hall and Jonathan Phillips
Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades
BAYBARS’
SUCCESSORS
Ibn al-Furāt on Qalāwūn and al-Ashraf
Translated by David Cook
First published 2020
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ibn al-Furāt, Muḥammad ibn `Abd al-Raḥīm, 1334 or 1335-1405. |
Cook, David, 1966- translator.
Title: Baybars' successors : Ibn al-Furāt on Qalāwūn and al-Ashraf /
translated by David Cook.
Other titles: Tā’rīkh al-duwal wa-al-mulūk. Selections. English
Description: 1. | New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Crusade texts in
translation | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Translated from Arabic.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019050832 (print) | LCCN 2019050833 (ebook) | ISBN
9780367223977 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429274701 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Islamic Empire—History—1258-1517. | Qalāwūn, Sultan of
Egypt and Syria, -1290. | Crusades—13th-15th centuries—History.
Classification: LCC D17 .I118213 2020 (print) | LCC D17 (ebook) | DDC
956/.014—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019050832
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019050833
ISBN: 978-0-367-22397-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-27470-1 (ebk)
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by Swales & Willis, Exeter, Devon, UK
CONTENTS
List of maps vii
Acknowledgements viii
Maps ix
INTRODUCTION 1
TEXT 8
Glossary 277
Bibliography 279
Index 283
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LIST OF MAPS
1 The Mediterranean World during the time of Qalāwūn ix
2 The crusader states in the late thirteenth century x
3 Egypt under Qalāwūn xi
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This translation is mostly a labor of love, as while teaching the Crusades I
found I wanted to contribute to the field, even though it is not my primary
study. My colleagues at Rice University, Claire Fanger and Brian Ogren, from
the Religion Department, aided me with some of the medieval and Jewish
connections, Maya Irish in the History Department, with the material about
Aragon and Castile. Michael Decker of the University of South Florida
helped me out with the Byzantine connections, and Georg Christ of the Uni-
versity of Manchester with the Venetian and Genoese connections. My best
friend Deborah Tor of Notre Dame University read over the introduction
and critiqued it. Thanks to Destiney Randolph, who also read over part of
the manuscript and critiqued it, as did Jena Lopez.
My mother, Elaine Cook, read over parts of the manuscript prior to her
death on January 20, 2018, and I would like to dedicate this work to her mem-
ory. She very much loved to read about the interconnections of the medieval
European and Islamic worlds. May her memory be blessed.
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