Religion, Politics and Literature in the Mamluk Sultanate
A new episode of the video series “Religion and Politics – Research Projects in Focus“
Islamic texts from the Mamluk period (1250-1500) are often not yet explored: many literary works are only available as manuscripts and need to be tediously reconstructed. This rouses the exploratory spirit of the scholar of Islamic studies Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer. Together with his team of researchers, he edits the literary texts and analyses how they deal with the topic of religion and politics. He reports in a new episode of the video series Research Projects in Focus that the political discourse in the Mamluk period hat far less to do with religion, as is often assumed, and much more with pragmatism. The film gives insight into his research project “Religion, Politics and Literature in the Mamluk Sultanate” at the Cluster of Excellence. (maz/vvm)