Ni ‘a summary of the history of the mamelouk sultanate, nor a comprehensive picture of the mamelouke era’, this book seeks, according to its author, to re-locate these state servoppers, often of homelessness in society of their times, Egypt and bilâd al-Shâm from the eighteenth to the fifteenth century, in order to reaffirm the novelty of this experience of power. In six chapters, J. Loiseau reproduces in an elegant and accessible style the formation of this mamelouke company in purchasing its components...