Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia

Abstract

Tables 3.1 Cairo sultans and their atābaks 190 7.1 Chief Judges of Mecca from the mid-seventh AH/thirteenth century to the beginning of the ninth AH/fifteenth century with Hijri years of service 288 9.1 The Cairo Sultanate's system of unitary government and inclusion of Venice 340 Charts 7.1 Chief judges of Mecca: Kinship 289 7.2 Chief judges of Mecca: Student-Teacher relationships and service as deputy judge 289 7.3 The first chief judges of Mecca for the four Sunni schools of law 296 Maps 1 Main regions of Islamic West-Asia 21 2 Early fifteenth-century political formations in Islamic West-Asia 22 3 Mid-fifteenth-century political formations in Islamic West-Asia 23 4 Late fifteenth-century political formations in Islamic West-Asia 24