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Living Documents, Dying Archives: Towards a Historical Anthropology of Medieval Arabic Archives [PDF]
, 2011 Based on an analysis of several collections of Medieval Arabic documents, this paper argues for the study of “archiving practices”, which selectively use documents as parts of wider social strategies of group formation and reproduction.
El-Leithy, Tamer
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Mamluk History through Architecture
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2012 This exhaustive series of fifteen essays, all produced by the author during 1989-2005, covers many relevant facets of the Mamluk slave dynasty (1250– 1517).
Tammy Gaber
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 5, September/October 2024.Abstract Animal domestication led to changes in the interaction between animals and humans, including new ways of exploitation, which could potentially leave lesions on the animals' bones. This study aims to examine changes in the prevalence of pathological manifestation following changes in human‐animal interactions as a result their domestication ...
Linoy Namdar +3 more
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Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.ABSTRACT This article explores the ways in which the Arabic sīra a genre loosely akin to the romance or chivalric epic can be incorporated into undergraduate teaching on medieval romance. Drawing on my own pedagogical experience and guided by ongoing critical work on decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, I demonstrate the values and challenges ...
Shazia Jagot
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Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesThis study, entitled "Diplomatic Relations between the Mamluk and Ilkhanate States from 694 to 736 AH / 1294 to 1336 AD," is a historical analysis that examines the diplomatic interactions between these two powers.
Lanja Talaat Obaid +1 more
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Churches in Muslim lands: Ibn Taymiyya’s Mas’alat al-kanā’is [PDF]
, 2008 Presentation and annotated translation of the Mas’alat al-kanā’is from Taqī al-dīn Aḥmad b. Taymiyya. In this fatwā, written between 1301 and 1306, the famous Ḥanbali jurist approaches the question of the churches in Cairo and other places that were ...
Sarrió Cucarella, Diego R.
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 375-395, July/August 2024.Abstract A spring tunnel is an ancient water installation used to artificially increase the water yield of a spring through a subterranean tunnel. We have developed a database of 216 spring tunnels documented in the central region of the Southern Levant (present‐day Israel), constructed between Iron Age II and the modern era.
Azriel Yechezkel +4 more
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The Enigma of the Baḥrīyah and the Political Legacy of Sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (1240–49) [PDF]
I have discussed the transition from the Ayyubids to the Mamluks elsewhere. In this article I offer a more thorough reading of volume six of Ibn Wāṣil’s (1208–98) history of the Ayyubids with thirteenth- and fourteenth-century historiography at the fore ...
Lev, Yaacov
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The Ḥafṣid domination of Northwest Africa in the 15th Century: The reign of Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān (1435–1488) [PDF]
, 2023 في النصف الأول من القرن الخامس عشر، استولت السلطنة المملوكية، التي حكمها الأشرف برسباي (١٤٢٢-١٤٣٨)، على قبرص في عام ١٤٢٧. وفي النصف الثاني من القرن الخامس عشر، استولت السلطنة العثمانية، التي حكمها محمد الثاني (١٤٤٤-١٤٤٦/ ١٤٥١- ١٤٨١)، على ...
Alenezi, السيد Meshal
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