Hindered Passages. The Failed Muslim Conquest Of Southern Italy [PDF]
, 2014 The establishment of an Aghlabid, then Fāṭimid-Kalbid dominion in Sicily had a deep impact not only on the island and on Mediterranean power constellations, but also on mainland Italy, especially in its Southern parts.
Kordula Wolf, Marco Di Branco
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Karbala mourning among the Fāṭimid-Ṭayyibī Shīʿa of India: doctrinal and performative aspects of Sayyidnā Ṭāhir Sayf al-Dīn’s Arabic Marthiya, “O King of Martyrs” (Yā Sayyida l-Shuhadāʾī) [PDF]
, 2021 The Sayyid al-Shuhadāʾ lament—a poignant fifty-one-stanza Arabic marthiya composed by the Ṭayyibī Dāʿī l-Muṭlaq Sayyidnā Ṭāhir Sayf al-Dīn (d. 1385/1965)—holds an iconic status in the Karbala tradition of the Fāṭimid-Ṭayyibī Shīʿa of India.
Qutbuddin, Tahera
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Les relations entre les Zirides et les Fatimides à la lumière des documents épigraphiques
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2016 The Fatimid and Zirid inscriptions, listed on the monuments and in the cemeteries of Tunisia, constitute a real mirror on which are reflected the moments of stability or tension which governed the relations between Ifrīqiya and Cairo (10th-11th century).
Lotfi Abdeljaouad
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William of Tyre, Orientalism and the (De)Construction of Latin Identity in Twelfth-century Jerusalem [PDF]
, 2022 Collective identities and transnational networks in medieval and early modern Europe, 1000 ...
Wolsing, I.
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Notes on Ideology and Religious Beliefs in the Islamic and Norman Coinages Circulating in Sicily [PDF]
, 2010 Recently published historical studies give more and more attention to the use of material evidence. This trend corresponds only apparently to the stance of 19th century-criticism of sources, which assigned a special role to coins, inscriptions and ...
Grassi, Vincenza
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On Relics and Mausoleums : the Death of the Prophet Muḥammad between History and Legend in the Mediterranean Context [PDF]
, 2020 This contribution analyses some motifs related to the death, relics, and tomb of the Prophet Muḥammad in some of his medieval Latin legendary biographies, namely the dismemberment of his body, the keeping of his relics in the Ka'ba, and his suspended ...
Di Cesare, Michelina
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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Two Writings of al-Ṭurṭūshī as Evidence for Early Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Crusader Presence in the Levant [PDF]
, 2017 This is the author accepted manuscript.Near-contemporaneous source material for the earliest Muslim responses to the arrival of the Frankish crusaders in the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the fifth/eleventh century is extremely scarce, with the ...
Mallett, APJ
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Muslim Diasporas and the Politics of Belonging: Ibadi and Ismaili Pasts and Presents in East Africa
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the Ibadi and Ismaili Muslim communities in East Africa—particularly in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (including Zanzibar)—and their distinct religious, social, and economic roles. Even as minorities within predominantly Sunni contexts, both groups have shaped the region through migration, commerce, and international ...
Kimberly T. Wortmann
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A brief note on the Yemenite chahar taq mausoleums. The case of Baraqish [PDF]
, 2016 The chahartaq, a type of building frequently used as a mausoleum in Iran during the Islamic era, has an undeniable Iranian pre-Islamic origin, but its architectural form, together with its function as a mausoleum, crossed the Iranian border and was ...
FONTANA, MARIA VITTORIA
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