SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

<p>Starting from 135 manuscripts that were once part of the library of the late Mamluk sultan Q?ni?awh al-Ghawr? (r. 1501?1516), this book challenges the dominant narrative of a "post-court era", in which courts were increasingly marginalized in the field of adab. Rather than being the literary barren field that much of the Arabic and Arabic-centred sources, produced extra muros, would have us believe, it re-cognizes Q?ni?awh's court as a rich an...Seguir leyendo