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Messina, 1167–68: A Microhistory of Urban Agency in the Twelfth-Century Kingdom of Sicily Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Paul Oldfield
Recent scholarship on the cities of the twelfth-century Kingdom of Sicily continues to nuance our understanding of urban life under the umbrella of a new monarchy. Collectively, these studies demon...
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Shadow Diplomacy: Pisa, Denia, and a Lost Muslim-Christian Alliance in the Eleventh-Century Mediterranean Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 David Romney Smith
This article combines a close reading of primary sources with speculation and circumstantial evidence to explore the possibility of an undocumented military alliance between Pisa, Denia, and possib...
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Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Stephen J. Spencer
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2024)
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Das neue Volk Gottes in Hispanien: Die Bibel in der christlich-iberischen Historiographie vom 8. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Alexander Marx
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2024)
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The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Nicola Meyrick
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2024)
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Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Nicholas Morton
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book that Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2024)
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Shaping Identities in a Holy Land: Crusader Art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Patrons and Viewers Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Nicholas Morton
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Hossameldin Ali
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Jakob Riemenschneider
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2024)
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Intractable Cities: Urbanism in the Islamic Sphere of the Later Medieval Mediterranean World Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Patrick Lantschner
The urbanism of the medieval Islamic world has often been understood as a type of urbanism in which cities and the structures of states were closely entwined – a trait that has been foregrounded as...
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Networks of Power in al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī’s Governorship Over Irāq Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Aliya Abdukadir Ali
This article explores the rule of the well-known Umayyad Governor of Iraq and the East, al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, over Baṣra and Kūfa (r. 75–94/694–714). Previous insights into al-Ḥajjāj’s rul...
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An “Earthly” Manifestation of Power: The Architectural and Urban Contexts of Iznik Tiles Produced under the Patronage of the Ottoman Palace Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Figen Kıvılcım Çorakbaş, Miray Gür, İmran Satış Atar, M. Gazihan Çelik, İlayda Maşat
Çini-making, which is an Ottoman underglaze ceramics tradition included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, was used extensively in the monumental arc...
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The First Crusade and the Failure of Kerbogha’s Campaign from Mosul to Antioch (March–June 1098): A Re-evaluation Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Thomas Brosset
This article addresses why the campaign of Kerbogha’s combined forces against the First Crusade failed by using accounts in Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Latin, and Old French. The discussion starts wit...
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“Go, Sirventoys, Swiftly as an Arrow”: The Unbound Transmission of Song in Crusading Contexts Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Uri Jacob
Available documentation of medieval music is almost exclusively limited to bound codices. Against this backdrop, this article explores how musical information was also communicated via more easily ...
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A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Mateusz Fafinski
The Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus offer an opportunity to look at the evolution of urban structures in the middle of the fifth century at the edge of the Roman Empire. Observing a ci...
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Urban Sanitation in al-Andalus: The Case of Qurṭuba (Tenth to Thirteenth Century) Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Rafael Blanco-Guzmán, Jesús Atenciano-Crespillo
This article presents a comprehensive examination of sanitation practices in Islamic Cordoba and al-Andalus; it highlights the importance of hygiene at both the domestic and the community level. Th...
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Sainthood and Social Boundary Crossing in Medieval Islamic North Africa Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Amira K. Bennison
This article considers how the spread of new modes of religiosity in the twelfth-century Maghrib, namely pietistic mysticism or Ṣūfism, enabled groups previously excluded from the ranks of religiou...
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Introduction: Negotiating Borders in the Medieval Islamic West Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ann Christys
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2024)
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Resolving Gender Ambiguity: An Initial Approach to Hermaphroditism in al-Andalus: The Case of the “Bearded Woman” of Tudela Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Aurora González Artigao
In the context of al-Andalus, intersexuality is a topic that has received limited exploration, despite its significance. Within this landscape, a narration discovered in al-Bakrī’s geographical tre...
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Mālikī Scholars on Christians in Umayyad al-Andalus: Juridical Dialogues and Discussions of “Mixed Families”* Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Ryo Takahashi
This essay deals with early Mālikī doctrine in Umayyad al-Andalus regarding the Christians. It focuses in particular on “mixed family” issues, that is, those arising from the marriage between a Mus...
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“However Many Priests Instructed in Latin and Arabic of Good Reputation and Letters You May Find”: Dominican Traditions About Language Acquisition and Missionary Preaching, c. 1190–1250 Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Amy C. Boland, Kyle C. Lincoln
This article investigates the long history of language training and missionary preaching in the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from the early training of Domingo de Caleruega, the Order’s founder,...
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Rulers Making Boundaries Clear in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cordoban Umayyads and the Almohads* Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Maribel Fierro
Four events that took place in the medieval Islamic West (al-Andalus and North Africa west of Egypt, second/ninth–eighth/fifteenth centuries) illustrate how rulers intentionally drew clear boundari...
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Diplomats and Betrayers: Christian Negotiators and the Confessional Rewriting of Surrender during the Islamic Conquest (634–642 AD) Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Marianna Mazzola
Combining evidence from Muslim and Christian sources, this paper attempts to offer some plausible readings as to the identity of the mediators who negotiated the submission of the main Byzantine ci...
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The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Lucas McMahon
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2024)
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The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Christopher Heath
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2024)
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Institutional and Functional Aspects of Hunting in Byzantium Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Anna Kotłowska, Kazimierz Ilski
This article concerns issues connected with references to wild animals in a variety of sources, reflecting Byzantine social practices primarily connected with hunting. Hunting here is understood in...
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Mallorca at the Crossroads of Powers in the Ninth Century Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Jordi Maíz Chacón
The history of Mallorca during the early Middle Ages remains a subject of intense debate to this day. The literary and archaeological information that has been preserved from the transition from th...
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Rethinking the Ninth-Century Islamic Presence in Peninsular Italy: A Perspective Through Islamic History and Politics Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Marco Zuccato
This article critically reviews the recent historiography and primary sources pertaining to the Muslim presence in early medieval peninsular Italy. The study illuminates the intricate dynamics of M...
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Approaching the Early Medieval Iberian Economy from the Ground Up Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Paolo Tedesco, Merle Eisenberg, Jamie Wood
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2023)
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Riches beyond the Horizon: Long-Distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th–12th centuries) Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Jessica Tearney-Pearce
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2023)
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Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Chloé Capel
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2023)
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The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation of the “Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum” Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Christopher Heath
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2023)
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Living on the Edge: Commerce and Trade on the Southwest Lusitanian Port Ensembles in Late Antiquity Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Ana Patrícia Magalhães
In Antiquity, coasts witnessed the growth of cities and the expansion of a range of different economic activities due to the maritime networks with which they were associated. Late Antiquity in Lus...
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Pastoralism and Peasant Accounting in Post-Roman Times: The Numerical Slates of the Sistema Central Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Nerea Fernández Cadenas
Numerical slates that appear in certain areas of the Iberian Peninsula in the post-Roman period have aroused considerable academic interest. Yet there is minimal agreement concerning the function o...
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The Early Medieval Peasant Economy: An Analysis of Archaeological Data from Central Portugal Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Sara Prata, Catarina Tente
This article presents and compares direct and indirect markers of economic and social strategies of peasant communities from two territories in central Portugal. Over the last fifteen years, severa...
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Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Political Advice Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Nicholas Morton
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
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Iberian Mooring: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Shai Zamir
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
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Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400–800 Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Mateusz Fafinski
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
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The Paulicians: Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c. 750– 880 Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Bojana Radovanović
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
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Italy, Cyprus and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Nicholas Morton
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
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Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al-buldan of al-Baladhuri Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
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The Business of Bishops: The Ecclesiastical Economy of Visigothic Iberia Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Merle Eisenberg, Jamie Wood
Visigothic Iberia experienced significant economic transformations from the sixth through the early eighth centuries, during which churches played an increasing ideological and material role. This ...
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The Role of Cities in the Early Medieval Economy Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Daniel Osland
This contribution explores the economic roles of cities in the early medieval economy, through the presentation of a range of archaeological datasets that can all be linked to urban production and/...
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Testators and the Visigothic State: A “from the Ground Up” Approach to Inheritance Law Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Damián Fernández
Property structures, demographic patterns and political vicissitudes encouraged testators in the Visigothic kingdom to follow a wide range of testation strategies to bequeath their property. Testat...
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Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Nicholas Morton
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023)
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Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 J. E. Tearney-Pearce
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023)
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Rethinking Norman Italy: Studies in Honour of Graham A. Loud Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Charles C. Rozier
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023)
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Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161) Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Teresa Witcombe
Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023)
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The “Long History” of Nidūy – from Tannaitic Literature to Late Antiquity Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Shimon Fogel
ABSTRACT The nidūy is the primary method of excommunication used by the early rabbis in the first two centuries CE. This article suggests some new readings in the earliest texts discussing this practice and their reception in Talmudic writing from Late Antiquity. By understanding excommunication as an attempt to set social boundaries and noticing the differences between the early texts, one can try
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Commercial Deceit: Fraudulent Trade from the Ports of Cilicia and Cyprus to the Mamlūks Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Ahmet Usta
The article aims to examine the deceitful practices employed by traders in the eastern Mediterranean. It investigates three principal types of deception that Italian merchants in the Kingdom of Cil...
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Comparing “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Middle East Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Edmund Hayes
ABSTRACT This introduction suggests an approach to the study of excommunication that is comparative (here highlighting Jewish, Christian and Islamic cases) and carefully contextual, taking note of specific institutional dynamics and processes of historical memory formation. Moreover, excommunication should be not be understood as a clearly defined category, but part of a broader network of acts of
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Islam and Judaism: Religious Attitudes and Identity in the Medinan Era Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Mohammed Ibraheem Ahmed
ABSTRACT For two centuries, Orientalists have consistently questioned the role of Judaism in the early development of Islam. This has resulted in an array of scholarship that attempts to unpack a more accurate relationship of early Islam with Medinan Jews than is found in much of the historiographically tenuous sīra and taʾrīkh literature. This article contributes to this strand of revisionism by assessing
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A Dwarf Among Giants: A Diplomatic and Political Reading of Florence’s First Commercial Expedition to Ottoman Constantinople Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Carlo Virgilio
ABSTRACT This article investigates the start of Florence’s approach to Ottoman Constantinople. It analyses the elements that enticed the Florentine Signoria to reconsider its commercial interest in Constantinople by highlighting the political role of the Ottoman sultan. In addition, this study intends to shed light on the difficulties the Florentine establishment faced in its diplomatic effort to successfully
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A Fifteenth-century Fatwa Issued by al-Wansharīsī on the Fate of Christian Prisoners: Death, or Captivity? Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Ana B. Cano-Carrillo
ABSTRACT This article presents a translation and analysis of a fatwa belonging to one of the most important and extensive compilations of legal opinions in Mālikī Islamic law, gathered together in the fifteenth century by al-Wansharīsī. We explore the fatwas in this compilation on the subject of captives, and focus in particular on one whose main point of interest is its exhaustive analysis of the
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“Smash His Head with a Rock”: Imāmic Excommunications and the Production of Deviance in Late Ninth-Century Imāmī Shīʿism Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Edmund Hayes
ABSTRACT In this article, I study how Imāmī imams ʿAlī al-Hādī (d. 868 CE) and al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī (d. 874 CE) attempted to police boundaries. While their excommunications have hitherto been treated through the lens of doctrinal discipline, I argue that we should not situate doctrine within practice. Religious leaders like the Imams used the politics of boundaries in order to meet challenges to their
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Resolving Ambivalence through (Claimed) Excommunication: The Depiction of al-Ashʿath b. Qays in Early and Classical Arabic-Islamic Historiography Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Georg Leube
ABSTRACT This contribution approaches the Kindī aristocrat al-Ashʿath b. Qays as a case-study for a contested figure in Muslim cultural memory. Al-Ashʿath is portrayed in a wide variety of conflicting reports, suggesting a spectrum of interpretations ranging from him being remembered as a 'villain' excommunicated by Muḥammad to having been one of the main 'heroes' of the divine miracle of the early
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City-republics of Northern Italy and the Sicilian Vespers: The Perception of the Revolt in the Urban Chronicles Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Francesco Migliazzo
ABSTRACT The revolt of the Vespers was immediately perceived around the Mediterranean and Europe as a turning point that threatened one of the greatest potentates in Europe: the Angevin Kingdom of Sicily. In central-northern Italy, these events jeopardised the Guelph hegemony supported by the Angevins and so the Italian city-republics experienced the consequences of the revolt, but its political and
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The Late Mamlūk Transition of the 1380s: The View from the North Caucasus Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 John Latham-Sprinkle
ABSTRACT This article argues that the transition between the early and late Mamlūk Sultanate in Egypt in the 1380s was partially caused by political developments in the Northwest Caucasus. The transition from “Turkish” to “Circassian” mamlūk dominance was facilitated by the rise of new princely elites in the Northwest Caucasus during the bulqaq civil wars in the Ulūs of Jochi (Golden Horde) (1359–1381)
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Military Jihād against Muslims: ‘Abd Allāh b. Yāsīn and the Foundation of a Saharan Political Unit that Would Conquer the Maghreb and al-Andalus (Eleventh Century) Al-Masāq (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Inês Lourinho
ABSTRACT In 1095, at the Council of Clermont, Urban II delivered a speech that roused the crowds against the infidels.Footnote1View all notes Soon thereafter, the Christian sovereigns rallied the troops, targeting Jerusalem. Even in the Iberian Peninsula, the population went into raptures at the prospect of taking up arms,Footnote2View all notes and had to be appeased by the Pope so as not to undermine