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Project

The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate II: historiography, political order and state formation in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria.

Outputs and Outcomes

Publications

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)

Jo Van SteenbergenMaya Termonia

A2 Journal Article in ANNALES ISLAMOLOGIQUES

Rethinking 'the Mamlūk State' with Ibn Khaldūn : 'Mamlukization,' ʿaṣabiyya, and historiographical imaginations of the Sultanate of Cairo (1200s-1500s)

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in The historian of Islam at work : essays in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy

Social infrastructures, military entrepreneurship, and the making of the Sultan’s court in fifteenth-century Cairo : the case of the Court Office of ‘the Chief Head of the Guards’ (ra‌ʾs ‌nawbat‌ al-nuwab)

Jo Van SteenbergenMaya Termonia

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT

'Sulṭān awlād al-nās' or 'Amīr ibn Mamlūk'? Re-framing Khalīl ibn Shāhīn’s Zubdat Kashf al-Mamālik wa-Bayān al-Ṭuruq wa-l-Masālik

Mustafa Banister

Bookchapter in Mamluk descendants : in search for the awlād al-nās

Where are the awlād al-nās? Arabic historiography, mamlūkization, and the semantics and discursive politics of a polysemous concept

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in Mamluk descendants : in search for the awlād al-nās

Al-ʿAynī and his fellow historians : questioning the discursive position of a historian in the academic field in the Cairo Sultanate

Bookchapter in 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

History writing, adab, and intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria : old and new readings

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in 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

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

Al-Biqāʿī’s self-reflection : a preliminary study of the autobiographical in his ʿUnwān al-Zamān

Bookchapter in 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

Nomen est omen : David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the reign of the Turks

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in Egypt and Syria under Mamluk rule : political, social and cultural aspects

Tales of reverence and powers : Ibn Ḥajar’s narratives of religious charismatic authority

Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont

A2 Journal Article in MAMLŪK STUDIES REVIEW = MAJALLAT AL-DIRĀSĀT AL-MAMLŪKĪYAH

The historiographical trajectory and legal status of a rebellion : anti-Sultan Jakam (d. 809/1407) and his literary representation

A2 Journal Article in MAMLŪK STUDIES REVIEW = MAJALLAT AL-DIRĀSĀT AL-MAMLŪKĪYAH

A tale of hybrid identities : notes on Ibn Taghrībirdī’s textual and authorial 'self-fashioning'

Rihab Ben Othmen

A2 Journal Article in MAMLŪK STUDIES REVIEW = MAJALLAT AL-DIRĀSĀT AL-MAMLŪKĪYAH

Professional mobility in Ibn ʿArabshāh’s fifteenth-century panegyric dedicated to Sultan al-Ẓāhir Jaqmaq

Mustafa Banister

A2 Journal Article in MAMLŪK STUDIES REVIEW = MAJALLAT AL-DIRĀSĀT AL-MAMLŪKĪYAH

How to make it in Cairo : the early career of Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʿī

A2 Journal Article in MAMLŪK STUDIES REVIEW = MAJALLAT AL-DIRĀSĀT AL-MAMLŪKĪYAH

Fifteenth-century Arabic historiography : introducing a new research agenda for authors, texts and contexts

Jo Van SteenbergenMustafa BanisterRihab Ben OthmenKenneth GoudieZacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont

A2 Journal Article in MAMLŪK STUDIES REVIEW = MAJALLAT AL-DIRĀSĀT AL-MAMLŪKĪYAH

Studying rulers and states across fifteenth century Western Eurasia

Jan DumolynJo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences

From Temür to Selim : trajectories of Turko-Mongol state formation in Islamic West-Asia’s long fifteenth century

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences

State formation in the 15th century and the Eurasian canvas : problems and opportunities

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences

Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences

Revisiting the Mamlūk empire : political action, relationships of power, entangled networks, and the sultanate of Cairo in late medieval Syro-Egypt

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in The Mamluk sultanate from the perspective of regional and world history : economic, social and cultural development in an era of increasing international interaction and competition

Al-Maqrīzī’s history of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian narrative construction : towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning

Jo Van Steenbergen

Bookchapter in Mamluk historiography revisited : narratological perspectives

Truth and politics in Late Medieval Arabic historiography : the formation of Sultan Barsbāy’s State (1422‒1438) and the narratives of the Amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438)

Jo Van SteenbergenStijn Van Nieuwenhuyse

A1 Journal Article in ISLAM-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GESCHICHTE UND KULTUR DES ISLAMISCHEN ORIENTS