
Channels of Transmission: Family and Professional Lineages in the Early Modern Middle East
Edited by Sandra Aube Maria Szuppe
with the collaboration of Anthony T. Quickel
Table of contents:
Part 1: Shaping Family Identities
Noms de famille dans les oasis d’Égypte à l’époque ottomane,
Nicolas Michel
Legitimacy Through Female Lineage? The Role of In-Laws (aṣhār) in the Royal Mamluk Households of the Fifteenth Century,
Albrecht Fuess
Matrimonial Alliances and the Transmission of Dynastic Power in Kurdistan: The Case of the Diyādīnids of Bidlīs in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries,
Sacha Alsancakli — Award 2018 of the “Best Article in Kurdish Political Studies,” by the University of Central Florida, Department of the Kurdish Political Studies.
The Kujujī Poets: Families, Poetry and Forms of Patronage in Azerbaijan and beyond (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries),
Christoph Werner
Part 2: Transmitting Skills and Knowledge
Skills and Style in Heritage: The Woodworker Faḫr al-Dīn and his Son ʿAlī in the Mazandaran (Iran, ca. 1440-1500),
Sandra Aube
Making Tools for Transmission: Mamluk and Ottoman Cairo’s Papermakers, Copyists and Booksellers,
Anthony T. Quickel
The Family and Professional Circle of Two Samarkand Calligraphers of Persian Belles-Lettres Around the Year 1600 (ca. 1010 AH),
Maria Szuppe
Some Aspects of Conversion Narratives in Late Safavid Iran and their Circulation: The Case of ʿAlī Akbar Armanī,
Alberto Tiburcio