RT Article
T1 Arabic as a Language of the South Asian Chancery: Bahmani Communications to the Mamluk Sultanate
JF Arabica
VO 67
IS 4
SP 409
OP 435
A1 Walravens, Meia
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1744402094
AB A growing body of literature on trade and cultural exchange between the Indian Ocean regions has already contributed significantly to our understanding of these processes and the role of language and writing within them. Yet, the question remains how Arabic correspondence played a part in communications between South Asian powers and the rulers in the Red Sea region. In order to begin filling this lacuna, this article studies epistolary writings from the Bahmani Sultanate (748/1347-934/1528) to the Mamluk Sultanate (648/1250-922/1517) during the second half of the ninth/fifteenth century. The contextualisation and discussion of three letters render insight both into the (up to now unstudied) issues at play in Bahmani-Mamluk relations and into the nature of these Arabic texts.
K1 Diplomacy
K1 Indian Ocean
K1 Islamic manuscripts
K1 Maḥmūd Gāwān
K1 Red Sea and Arabian Sea
K1 Correspondence
K1 epistolary collections
K1 inšāʾ/munšaʾāt
DO 10.1163/15700585-12341569