Editing Amman (section)

===Mamluk period (13th–early 16th century)===
During the [[Mamluk Egypt|Mamluk]] era (late 13th–early 16th century), the region of Amman was a part of Wilayat Balqa, the southernmost district of Mamlakat Dimashq (Damascus Province).<ref>Walker 2015, p. 119.</ref> The capital of the district in the first half of the 14th century was the minor administrative post of [[Hisban]], which had a considerably smaller garrison than the other administrative centers in Transjordan, namely [[Ajlun]] and al-Karak.<ref>Walker 2015, pp. 119–120.</ref> In 1321, the geographer [[Abu'l Fida]], recorded that Amman was "a very ancient town" with fertile soil and surrounded by agricultural fields.<ref name=Strange392/> For unclear, though likely financial reasons, in 1356, the capital of Balqa was transferred from Hisban to Amman, which was considered a ''madina'' (city).<ref name=Walker120>Walker 2015, p. 120.</ref> In 1357, Emir [[Sirghitmish]] bought Amman in its entirety, most likely to use revenues from the city to help fund the [[Madrasa of Sarghatmish|Madrasa of Sirghitmish]], which he built in [[Cairo]] that same year.<ref name=Walker120/> After his purchase of the city, Sirghitmish transferred the courts, administrative bureaucracy, markets and most of the inhabitants of Hisban to Amman.<ref name=Walker120/> Moreover, he financed new building works in the city.<ref name=Walker120/>

Ownership of Amman following Sirghitmish's death in 1358 passed to successive generations of his descendants until 1395, when his descendants sold it to Emir Baydamur al-Khwarazmi, the ''na'ib as-saltana'' (viceroy) of Damascus.<ref name=Walker120/> Afterward, part of Amman's cultivable lands were sold to Emir Sudun al-Shaykhuni (died 1396), the ''na'ib as-saltana'' of Egypt.<ref>Walker 2015, pp. 120–121.</ref> The increasingly frequent division and sale of the city and lands of Amman to different owners signalled declining revenues coming from Amman, while at the same time, Hisban was restored as the major city of the Balqa in the 15th century.<ref>Walker 2015, p. 121.</ref> From then until 1878, Amman was an abandoned site periodically used to shelter seasonal farmers who cultivated arable lands in its vicinity and by Bedouin tribes who used its pastures and water.<ref name=Dawn>{{cite book |title=Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East |series=The Contemporary Middle East (Book 5) |author=Dawn Chatty |year=2010 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=116–117 |isbn=9780521817929 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OsgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-date=18 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518204153/https://books.google.com/books?id=8OsgAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA117 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=McEvedy>{{cite book |title=Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization |author=Colin McEvedy |year=2011 |location=London |publisher=Allen Lane/Penguin Books |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VZowqTafiacC&pg=PT37 |isbn=9780141967639 |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-date=18 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518201422/https://books.google.com/books?id=VZowqTafiacC&pg=PT37 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Ottoman Empire]] annexed the region of Amman in 1516, but for much of the Ottoman period, [[al-Salt]] functioned as the virtual political center of Transjordan.<ref name= Hamed/>