a Study of al-Durar al-kamina as a Source for the History of the Mamluk Empire.
Several scholars have attempted to characterize the secretaries of the bureaucracies of the Islamic empires during various eras. Most claim that these secretaries (kuttab) were a closely knit caste of professional bureaucrats with no ties to the class of religious notables, the 'ulama'. In...
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McGill University
1974
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