Book Review: Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shiʿis and the Architecture of Coexistence, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014, xiv, 297 pp. (original) (raw)

'Review of: Heba el-Toudy and Tarek Galal Abdelhamid (eds), Selections from Ṣubḥ al-A‘shā by al-Qalqashand ī, Clerk of the Mamluk Court: Egypt: “Seats of Government ” and “Regulations of the Kingdom ”, from Early Islam to the Mamluks', Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (2017).

Nicholas Morton

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forthcoming Reinfandt Local Judicial Authorities in Umayyad Egypt (41-132/661-750)

Research Network Imperium & Officium

in: M. Tillier (ed.), Les justices dans l’Islam médiéval et moderne. Pluralisme judiciaire et interactions institutionnelles, Beirut: Presses de l’IFPO (forthcoming)

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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 (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts. Vol. 179) (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021) (Open Access)

Jo Van Steenbergen

2021

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Umayyad Clientage and Egyptian Historical Knowledge: A First Look at the Affiliations of a Local Egyptian Historiography, delivered at 'Arabs, mawlas and dhimmis: Scribal practices and the social construction of knowledge in Late Antiquity and Medieval Islam’, Warburg Institute, December 2013.

Edward P. Zychowicz-Coghill

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Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘Islamic Law in Action, Authority, Regulation, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt’, by Kristen Stilt,” Der Islam, vol. 90, no. 2 (October 2013): 467-471

Yehoshua Frenkel

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Historiography and the Making of the Sultan's Court in 15th Century Cairo. The case of the court office of 'the Chief Head of the Guards' (raʾs nawbat al-nuwab). Annales Islamologiques 56 (2022) (with M. Termonia)

Jo Van Steenbergen

Annales Islamologiques 56, 2022

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“Review of: Muhsin J. al-Musawi, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters. Arabic Knowledge Construction. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015,” Renaissance Quarterly 69 (2016).4: 1426-1428.

Evrim Binbaş

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The Corpus and Context: Agrarian Fiscal Administration and State Formation in Early Islamic Egypt 717-1035 A.D./99-427 A.H

Gladys Frantz-Murphy

2007

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"From the ‘Sultan of Islam’ to the ‘Realms of the World’. Lists of Rulers, Politics of Scale, and Claims to Sovereignty in Ninth-/Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Chronicles.” In A History of Diplomacy, Spatiality, and Islamic Ideals, ed by. Malika Dekkiche, 36–59 [Author's Accepted Version]

Jo Van Steenbergen

A History of Diplomacy, Spatiality, and Islamic Ideals, 2024

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The Arabic Text of SPPVIII 1198 and Its Significance for the Study of Arabisation of the Egyptian Administration

Tomasz Barański

The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2019

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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

Maya Termonia

2021

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On Arabisation and Islamisation in Early Islamic Egypt. I. Prosopographic Notes on Muslim Officials

Lajos Berkes

Chronique d'Égypte, 2018

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The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Beginning of Muslim Rule

Petra Sijpesteijn

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Yehoshua Frenkel, “Is There an Islamic Space? – Urban and Social Issues, as Reflected in the Qadi Courts of Egypt and Syria (13th-16th Centuries),” in Yaacov Lev, ed., Towns and Material Culture in the Medieval Middle East (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 103-117

Yehoshua Frenkel

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"Naught Remains to the Caliph but his Title" : Revisiting Abbasid Authority in Mamluk Cairo

Mustafa Banister

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The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition: Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century, ed. by Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen (Goettingen: Bonn University Press at V & R unipress, 2017) - ISBN: 978-3-8471-0637-1

Wakako Kumakura, Alev Masarwa, Timothy J Fitzgerald, Torsten Wollina, Linda T Darling, Gül Şen

2017

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Islamic Law on the Provincial Margins: Christian Patrons and Muslim Notaries in Upper Egypt, 2nd-5th/8th-11th Centuries

Lev Weitz

Islamic Law and Society, 2020

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Review of Lajos Berkes's (ed.) Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt

Tobias Scheunchen

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2024

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Book Review: Jo Van Steenbergen and Maya Termonia, eds., 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

Amina E Eltayeb

Der Islam vol. 101, no.2, 2024

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Ehud R. Toledano, State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Cambridge Middle East Library no. 22 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) Pp. 334

Peter Gran

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1992

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Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Hugh Kennedy and Letizia Osti, Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court. Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320 / 908-32), Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2013 (Review)

Nicholas Nikoloudis

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UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) [Review of: W. Werkmeister (1983) Quellenuntersuchungen zum Kitab al-'Igd al-farid des Andalusiers Ibn 'Abdrabbih (246/869-328/940): ein beitrag zur Arabischen

Walter Werkmeister

2010

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Mynářová, J. (ed.), Egypt and the Near East – the Crossroads (2011)

Jana Mynářová, Greta Jans, Marcin Czarnowicz, Bettina Bader, Violetta Cordani, Joachim Bretschneider, Anna Wodzinska, Florian Klimscha, Mary Ownby

2011

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A.C.S. Peacock & S.N. Yildiz, eds, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (2013), reviewed by Alexander Beihammer (BSOAS)

Andrew Peacock, Sara Nur Yildiz

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Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Thought

Tara Stephan

Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought: Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson, 2017

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In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols)

Christian Mauder

2021

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Cross-Cultural Parameters of Scribal Politesse in the Correspondence of Arab-Muslim Officials from Early Islamic Egypt

Eugenio Garosi

Living the End of Antiquity

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Review of M. Tillier, L'invention du cadi: la justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l'islam

John Tolan

Al-Masāq, 2020

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Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt. By Adam Mestyan. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. xv, 356. $45.00.)

Awad Halabi

The Historian, 2018

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Arabic documents from the first two Islamic centuries

Khaled Younes

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Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Waqf System During the Last Decades of Mamluk Rule,” in Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen, eds., The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century, 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022), 221-272

Yehoshua Frenkel

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Developments in Egypt's early Islamic postal system (with an edition of P.Khalili II 5)

Jelle Bruning

Bulletin of SOAS, 2018

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Locating Arabic Papyrology: Fiscal Politics in Medieval Egypt as a Test-Case for Setting Disciplinary Boundaries and Standards

Petra Sijpesteijn

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Book Review: Islamic Law in Action, Authority, Discretion and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt, by Kristen Stilt

Haider Hamoudi

2012

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Review of Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Ashqar: al-Wizāra wa-l-wuzarāʾ fī Miṣr fī ʿaṣr al-ṣalāṭīn al-mamālīk, Cairo: al-Hayʾa al-Miṣriyya al-ʿĀmma lil-Kitāb 2011

Christian Mauder

2014

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