Fourth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Beirut, May, 2017. Call for Papers

http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html We are pleased to announce the Fourth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies. The conference will be conducted in two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk architecture from May 8-10, 2017. The first day of the conference, May 11, will be themed. In consideration of the quincentennial of the fall of the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo in 1517, the theme of this part of the conference will be “Time.” This theme may be..