Primary sources on Mamluk-era Jordan 'proverbial needle in the haystack', says professor
AMMAN — During the Mamluk period, the area which is now modern-day Jordan was administratively divided between the Provinces of Karak and Damascus, noted an American professor.“Its people were known by their hometowns and villages; there was no collective term for the peoples of the region, as there was not for the rest of Bilad Al Sham,” said Bethany Walker from the