‘The City of Abraham’s Children’: The Religious Communities of Damascus in the Late 7th A.H./13th A.D. Century [PDF]
, 2022 This article discusses the relationships between the three Abrahamic faith communities (Jews, Christians and Muslims) of Damascus during the late 7th A.H./13th A.D. century, employing a textual research study, through the collation and critical review of
Alenezi, Musaed, Jubran, Numan
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New readings in Arabic historiography from late medieval Egypt and Syria : proceedings of the themed day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies [PDF]
, 2021 The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it engages with questions of textual ...
Termonia, Maya, Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Some New Insights regarding Mamluk Siege Artillery (7th–8th/13th–14th centuries) [PDF]
, 2022 The conquest of the Frankish and Armenian fortresses attests to the high level of mastery achieved by the Mamluk army in the art of siege warfare. In addition to the large number of places they conquered, the short duration of their sieges raises the ...
Berriah, Mehdi
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Los ayubíes (564 h./1168-658 h./1260): un recorrido historiográfico [PDF]
, 2015 The historiography of the Ayyubid dynasty has been a notable increase grown significantly over the past two centuries. This work aims to present a tour of the studies published by leading Western specialists, along with a comprehensive bibliography.La ...
Callejas Martín, Isabel
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Literary spectacles of sultanship: historiography, the chancery, and social practice in late medieval Egypt [PDF]
, 2023 The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers.
Van den Bossche, Gowaart
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Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources:The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the portrayal of Louis IX in medieval Arabic historiography to show the importance of cross-cultural Mediterranean interaction.
El-Merheb, Mohamad
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Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla [PDF]
, 2017 Peer ...
Lindstedt, Ilkka Juhani
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The Landscape of Sicily in and around the 13th Century. The Idealization and Islamization of the Island in the Literary Narratives of Al-Qazwīnī and Abū Bakr al-Harawī [PDF]
, 2021 In and around the 13th century, two eastern authors describe the island of Sicily from different perspectives but with the common purpose of linking it to the Arab and Islamic world it had belonged to.
Roldán Castro, Fátima
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Maẓālim between Politics and Justice under the Mamluks [PDF]
, 2021 This thesis aims to explore the place of the maẓālim institution in the Mamluk state and to study maẓālim as a product of its period rather than following the strict provisions of al-Māwardī’s theory.
Rashad, Menna
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Created After, From, and For the Man? : Development of Premodern Shiʿi Exegetic Discourse on the Creation of Woman [PDF]
, 2021 This article examines the diachronic development of Shiʿi exegetic discourse on the sentence Khalaqakum min nafs wāḥida wa-khalaqa minhā zawjahā (“created you from a single soul and created its mate from it”) in the Quranic verse 4:1, customarily read as
von Schöneman, Katja
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