A History of Diplomacy, Spatiality, and Islamic Ideals

Inspired by the "spatial turn", this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms.

Malika Dekkiche is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on Muslim diplomatic contacts in the thirteenth-sixteenth centuries, chancery practices, and religious patronage. She is the co-editor of the volume Mamluk Cairo. A Crossroad for Embassies (2019).

Introducing Space to Diplomacy Part 1: Islamic Sovereignty and Territorial Claims 1. Between Emir and Rey Moro: Bah-- al-Dawla b. H-d and the Question of Sovereignty in Seventh-/Thirteenth-Century Murcia 2. From the "Sultan of Islam" to the "Realms of the World": Lists of Rulers, Politics of Scale, and Claims to Sovereignty in Ninth-/Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Chronicles Part 2: Experience of Islamic Territory 3. Pepper from the Sultan: Commercial Diplomacy from Below in Maml-k Damascus (1418) 4. The End of the Renaissance: Ambrosio Bembo and the 'Limits' of Ottoman Space Part 3: Islamic Legacy and Ideals 5. A Scribe's Realm: Islamic Ideals of Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire 6. Itineracy, Homecoming, and Territory in the Maghrib over the Longue Durée