The earliest manuscripts of Kairouan (9th-11th Centuries): new approaches for a more accurate dating [PDF]
Based on the close examination of 32 manuscripts produced in Kairouan between the 9th and the 11th centuries, this article reassesses the content and function of their paratext and interrogates some diagnostic features of their scripts and page layout ...
Bongianino, Umberto, Salah, Clément
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Historical memory of a text: Khabar describing the Jews from Khaybar in Kitāb al-istiqṣā by Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Nāṣirī [PDF]
El presente artículo analiza las transformaciones experimentadas en el khabar que describe la abolición de la jizya impuesta a los judíos residentes en Khaybar.
Dziekan, Marek M.
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Who Built Jisr (Banāt) Yaʿqūb over the Upper Jordan? [PDF]
The crossing of the Upper Jordan River (Nahr al-Sharīʿah) to the north of the Sea of Galilee has always been of strategic importance for the inhabitants of the area. A now-destroyed stone bridge, located approximately one kilometer north of Meẓad ʿAteret
Cytryn, Katia, Czitron, Dror
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The Term Turkī Khāliṣ in Mamluk Sources [PDF]
The phenomenon of mamluks of Mongol origin during the early Mamluk period (roughly 648–741/1250–1341) has been studied by several scholars, but mamluks of Mongol origin during later periods have hardly received scholarly attention.
Yosef, Koby
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La Gnose aux débuts de l’islam. Nouvelles recherches sur les Shi‘ites « extrémistes » [PDF]
Ces toutes dernières années, un nouvel intérêt est né pour l’ultra-shi‘isme. De nombreuses études sont venues enrichir la recherche sur l’important courant religieux qu’on appelle le ghulūw et les adeptes de celui-ci nommés les ghulāt, autrement dit le ...
Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali
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The cult of Qalāwūn:Waqf, commemoration, and dynasty in early Mamluk Cairo, ca. 1280-1340 [PDF]
This dissertation investigates the role of pious foundations, or waqf, in the establishment of dynastic rule in the early Mamluk Sultanate. By case studying the waqf of Sultan al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (r.
Flinterman, W.A.
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History writing, adab, and intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria : old and new readings [PDF]
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Ibn Wāsil: An Ayyubid Perspective on Frankish Lordships and Crusades [PDF]
Hirschler, Konrad
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Three looks at Adonis’ poetical production [PDF]
En este artículo se intenta trazar un análisis crítico de diferentes textos poéticos del escritor siro-libanés Adonis (Adūnīs), publicados en el período comprendido entre 1965 y 1980. La poética del autor y su evolución se describe e interpreta
Arbós Ayuso, Federico
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The Impact of Maghribi Ḥadīth Commentaries on the Mashriq [PDF]
Trad, Khaoula
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