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>In Upper Egypt the Mamluks combined the demonstration of triumphand superiority over the Bedouins with deterrence. Dead Bedouins werehung in plain view on spikes along the roads.109 Others were thrown intopits, over which the Mamluks erected mastabas (maṣāṭib, sing.maṣṭaba).110 It is also reported that these constructions were built with theheads of the dead.111 Ibn Iyās describes the scene as follows:
>They did not stop cutting off the heads of the Bedouins and thefarmers who were in the villages of Upper Egypt, and built withtheir heads a couple of mastabas (maṣāṭib) and towers on the bankof the Nile, just as Hülegü did in Baghdad.112
>In doing so, the Mamluks demonstrated that they had prevailed again inUpper Egypt and also delivered a warning to all potential rebels.
>After the victory of the Mamluk troops, the government issued severaldecrees laying down further punishments and measures to prevent moreuprisings. Apart from those who were responsible for the control of certainareas (arbāb al-adrāk), Bedouins and farmers were not allowed to ownhorses or weapons.113 The chronicler Ibn Duqmāq also reports that theywere forbidden to buy cloth.114 This unusual decree may have to do withthe proclamation of al-Aḥdab’s Sultanate and his use of stolen cloth as asign of royal power.
>Al-Aḥdab managed to flee from the Mamluks in time, again leaving hisfamily and property behind.115 While al-Maqrīzī does not say where hetook refuge, Ibn Iyās reports that the Sultan sent Emir Šayḫū to the “Landof the Zanj”, i.e. the eastern coastal territories of Africa, where al-Aḥdab was thought to be, but a search produced no result.116
>In Upper Egypt the Mamluks combined the demonstration of triumphand superiority over the Bedouins with deterrence. Dead Bedouins werehung in plain view on spikes along the roads.109 Others were thrown intopits, over which the Mamluks erected mastabas (maṣāṭib, sing.maṣṭaba).110 It is also reported that these constructions were built with theheads of the dead.111 Ibn Iyās describes the scene as follows:
>They did not stop cutting off the heads of the Bedouins and thefarmers who were in the villages of Upper Egypt, and built withtheir heads a couple of mastabas (maṣāṭib) and towers on the bankof the Nile, just as Hülegü did in Baghdad.112
>In doing so, the Mamluks demonstrated that they had prevailed again inUpper Egypt and also delivered a warning to all potential rebels.
>After the victory of the Mamluk troops, the government issued severaldecrees laying down further punishments and measures to prevent moreuprisings. Apart from those who were responsible for the control of certainareas (arbāb al-adrāk), Bedouins and farmers were not allowed to ownhorses or weapons.113 The chronicler Ibn Duqmāq also reports that theywere forbidden to buy cloth.114 This unusual decree may have to do withthe proclamation of al-Aḥdab’s Sultanate and his use of stolen cloth as asign of royal power.
>Al-Aḥdab managed to flee from the Mamluks in time, again leaving hisfamily and property behind.115 While al-Maqrīzī does not say where hetook refuge, Ibn Iyās reports that the Sultan sent Emir Šayḫū to the “Landof the Zanj”, i.e. the eastern coastal territories of Africa, where al-Aḥdab was thought to be, but a search produced no result.116
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