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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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Legitimizing the Mamluk Sultanate

Acta Histriae
This paper examines the legitimation of the Mamluk state, focusing not only on its military victories over Crusaders and Mongols but also on its religious rhetoric, alliances with the ʿulamāʾ, and ties to the Abbasid caliphate.
Yusuf ÖTENKAYA
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The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü and Abaqa: Mongol overtures or Christian Ventriloquism? [PDF]

, 2005
Il s'agit de l'avant dernière épreuve avant publicationInternational audienceThis paper deals with the Great Khans and Ilkhans' letters, and with the question of their authenticity and the intervention of the Christians of the Bilād al-Shām.
Aigle, Denise
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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Some notes on the Portuguese & Frankish pirates during the Mamluk period (872-922AH./1468-1517AD.) [PDF]

, 2007
Artikel pendek ini bermatlamat untuk menyoroti hubungan antara sebuah kuasa Islam yang besar pada Zaman Pertengahan iaitu Mamluk dengan Portugis dan kumpulan lanun Eropah dalam tempoh setengah abad sebelum kejatuhan kerajaan Islam tersebut.
Wan Kamal Mujani,
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Three Arabic Letters from North Sumatra of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [PDF]

, 2016
This article examines three Arabic documents, one from the Sultanate of Samudera-Pasai dated 1516, and two from the Sultanate of Aceh, dated 1602 and 1603, written in the name of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Syah (r.1589–1604).
Peacock, Andrew Charles Spencer
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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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'Mamlukisation' between social theory and social practice: an essay on reflexivity, state formation, and the late medieval sultanate of Cairo [PDF]

, 2015
This working paper is a reflexive essay that tries to think with and beyond one of the basic assumptions upon which the field of late medieval Syro-Egyptian ‘Mamluk’ studies is built: the idea that all late medieval Syro-Egyptian objects of study are by ...
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Mamluk Jerusalem: Architecturally Challenging Narratives [PDF]

, 2013
Narratives abound concerning the religious and political positioning of Jerusalem in the past as well as the present and have been used in a variety of ways to serve various ideologies or political ends.
Smith, Andrew C
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