Cihan Yüksel Muslu. The Ottomans and the Mamluks: Imperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World.

Abstract

Concerning the questions of Ottoman integration into the modern diplomatic networks in the early modern period, The Ottomans and the Mamluks deals with Ottoman-Mamluk diplomatic relations and contributes to the field of Ottoman diplomatic history, especially to understanding how the Ottomans used diplomacy as a tool of foreign policy and to what extent diplomacy was a mechanism at which interstate conflicts were highlighted, discussed and resolved through diplomacy as an alternative to warfare.