MPP contains related biographical, institutional, geographical, historical and historiographical data organised in the following key entities (defined by CIDOC-CRM):
(you can click on each entity to learn more)
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single quotes or "=" can be used to retrieve exact and specific data (eg. =Jaqmaq; 'Jaqmaq')
784-872/1382-1468, broken down into the following six episodes:
4.1 & 4.2: 784-815/1382-1412 (partial)
5.1 815-825/1412-1422 & 5.1b 825-842/1422-1438
5.2 842-857/1438-1453 & 5.2b 857-872/1453-1468
(input of some ongoing) (for full bibliographical details, see the Mamluk Bibliography Project):
* Narrative sources: chronicles
* Narrative sources: biographical dictionaries
* Court manuals etc.:
consonants: ʾ - b - t - th - j - ḥ - kh - d - dh - r - z - s - sh - ṣ - ḍ - ṭ - ẓ - ʿ - gh - f - q - k - l - m - n - h - w - y
vowels: a/ā - i/ī - u/ū
- simple Arabic-specific consonants and vowels: ʾ, ā, ḥ, ḍ, ṣ, ṭ, ẓ, ʿ, ī, ū
- composed Arabic-specific consonants: th, kh, dh, sh, gh
- hamza is also used as initial letter (except of course al-, ism …)
- no nunation, but wasla-connection (eg. ʾAbu l-Faḍl instead of ʾAbū al-Faḍl)
- no assimilation of al- (eg. al-shams, not ash-shams)
- nisba: ī / īya
- tāʾ marbūṭa: a / at (in iḍāfa)