المغنون و المغنيات في العصر المملوكي

Abstract EN

This research treats about an important class in the Mamluk era which is the classe of singers.

It based on exact statistics of the female and male singers in three important sources of the mamluk era which are Badāʼiʽ al-zuhūrfīwaqāʼiʽ al-duhūrof Ibn Iyās, Kitāb al-Sulūk li-ma‘rifatduwal al-mulūk of Maqrīzī and Kitāb al-Nuğūm al-zāhirafīmulūkMișrwal-l-Qāhira of Ibn TaġrīBurdī.

This research discusses the number of these signers, their social position, their closeness of authority, their fame in the society, the parties they liven up, the wages or the presents they take, the kinds of songs they sing, the musical instruments they play, their public and private life, events which happened with them, the way their biography was mentioned in sources and the approach of the historians in the description of this social class.