Can Doctoral Dissertations Disappear? A Look at Ibrahim al‐Hafsi’s “Correspondance officielle et privée d’al‐Qāḍī al‐Fāḍil” and its Prospects in a Digital Age [PDF]
I have recently had the opportunity to examine a remarkable doctoral dissertation completed in 1979 under the supervision of Prof. Charles Pellat and now housed at the Bibliothèque Orient - Monde arabe of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. Dr.
Smarandache, Bogdan C.
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Qāytbāy’s Journey to Bilād al-Shām in 882-1477 :power, periphery, and royal peregrinations - [PDF]
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of History and Archaeology, 2014. T:6060Advisor : Dr. John L. Meloy, Professor, History and Archaeology ; Members of Committee : Dr. Abdul-Rahim, A. Abu-Husayn, Professor ; Dr. Nadia M.
Koh, Choon Hwee,
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Mediators between Theoretical and Practical Medieval Knowledge: Medical Notebooks from the Cairo Genizah and their Significance. [PDF]
Lev E.
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The Sīrat Baybars represents a very important Arab folktale pretending to describe the life of Mamluk Sultan Baybars (r. 1260-77). While the content varies between fact and fiction, it proved to be highly entertaining and popular among the Egyptian ...
Albrecht Fuess
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Khairy Shalaby’s Novel \u3cem\u3eThe City of the Enslaved\u3c/em\u3e: Egyptian Prison Literature with a Russian Twist [PDF]
Although the interconnectedness of Russian and Arabic literatures has been demonstrated by Soviet/Russian and, to a limited extent, Western Arabists, this research remains limited to a few names.
Gintsburg, Sarali
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The term imārat al-istilāʾ (“emirate by usurpation”)—istilāʾ for short—can be best understood by placing it within a historical context. Our starting point is with the jurist and political theoretician Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Māwardī (d.
Jackson, Roy
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Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī: Egypt as Part of the Maghrib [PDF]
de Castro León, V.
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Primary Education under the Mamlūks: Two Documents from the Ḥaram in Jerusalem
Daniel A. Richards
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Maritime Trade and Imperial Ambitions: Yemeni Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World (626/1228-858/1454) [PDF]
This thesis explores the role of Yemen, particularly under the Rasūlid dynasty (626/1228-858/1454) in the medieval Indian Ocean trade. I argue that the Rasūlids attempted to create an “imperial maritime space” wherein Yemen would be the imperial core ...
Sjostedt, Beck
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