Nomen est omen : David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the reign of the Turks Universiteit Gent
This essay presents a survey and careful re-reading of some of David Ayalon’s work, with a particular focus on his 1990 “Baḥrī Mamluks, Burjī Mamlūks — Inadequate Names for the Two Reigns of the Mamlūk Sultanate”. It aims to explore the wider dimensions of Ayalon’s discussions and to reflect on the meanings of naming patters in particular for understandings of this polity’s dynamic history. It endeavors to show how —contrary to common ...