Families, Authority, and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East (Miroir De L'orient Musulman, 10) (English, French and German Edition)

Contents
Introduction
Religious Lineages and Knowledge Networks
	Family and Transmission of Knowledge in Mamluk and Early Ottoman Damascus
		Torsten Wollina
	Narrating a Lineage’s Transition Crisis between Biography and Hagiography
		Adam Sabra
	Converts and Polemicists as Bridges in Knowledge Networks
		Alberto Tiburcio
Kinship, Status, and Legitimacy
	Warriors, Kings, and Caliphs
		Sacha Alsancakli
	Wann fällt der Apfel nicht weit vom Stamm?
		Syrinx von Hees
	Families of Cairene Civil Servants, from Mamluk to Ottoman Times (Fifteenth – Sixteenth Centuries)
		Nicolas Michel
Marriage Alliances and Political Strategies
	Ṣihr and Muṣāhara in Mamluk Royal Relations
		Albrecht Fuess
	L’histoire du pacha exemplaire marié à une sultane extravagante
		Juliette Dumas
Professional Lineages and Transmission
	Family Legacy Versus Regional Style: Tracing Three Generations of Woodworkers in Māzandarān (Iran, 1460s-1500s)
		Sandra Aube
	La formation d’un calligraphe dans le monde iranien
		Francis Richard
Managing Households and Family Estates
	The Rażavī Sayyids of Mashhad
		Christoph U. Werner
	Documenting the Barnābādī Estate
		Maria Szuppe
	Creating a Family Property in Early Modern Iran
		Naofumi Abe