The Location and Reconstruction of a Byzantine Structure in Marea, Egypt Including a Comparison of Electronic Remote Sensing and Remote Viewing
The Location and Reconstruction of a Byzantine Structure in Marea, Egypt Including a Comparison of Electronic Remote Sensing and Remote Viewing By Stephan A…
Marea on Lake Maryut
Marea on Lake Maryut By Hanna Szymańska and Krzysztof Babraj Polish Archaeology in Egypt (2007) Marea or Philoxenite? This question comes to mind first.…
The Sons of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the Politics of Puppets: Where Did It All Start?
The Sons of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the Politics of Puppets: Where Did It All Start? By Frédéric Bauden Mamluk Studies Review, Vol.13:1 (2009) Introduction: The…
The Financial Reforms of Sultan Qāytbāy
The Financial Reforms of Sultan Qāytbāy By Igarashi Daisuke Mamluk Studies Review, Vol.13:1 (2009) Introduction: The expansion of the Ottoman Empire from the middle of…
Symbiotic Relations: Ulama and the Mamluk Sultans
Symbiotic Relations: Ulama and the Mamluk Sultans By Yaacov Lev Mamluk Studies Review, Vol.13:1 (2009) Introduction: The ulama played a vital role in the…
The Transition from Coptic to Arabic
The Transition from Coptic to Arabic By Samuel Rubenson Égypte/Monde arabe, Première série, 27-28 (1996) Introduction: The process in which the last stage of…
Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch. The case of the Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the 13th century
Legitimizing a low-born, regicide monarch. The case of the Mamluk sultan Baybars and the Ilkhans in the 13th century By Denise Aigle Representing…
The Medieval Islamic World Through the Eyes of Two Travelers
The Medieval Islamic World Through the Eyes of Two Travelers By Melanie A. Clouser Agora, Vol.3:1 (2002) Introduction: Islamic regions, long ignored and misunderstood by…
The Muslim Jewish Relations in Ayyubid Egypt (1171-1250)
The Muslim Jewish Relations in Ayyubid Egypt (1171-1250) By Mohamed Hawary Paper given at Children of Abraham: Trialogue of Civilizations (2007) Introduction: Egypt had a very…
Interview with Donald S. Richards – The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir
Donald S. Richards is retired as lecturer in Arabic at the Oriental Institute, and is emeritus fellow of St Cross College, University of…
The Emergence of the Prototype of the Modern Hospital in Medieval Islam
The Emergence of the Prototype of the Modern Hospital in Medieval Islam By Aydin Sayili Belleten, Vol. 44: 174 (1980) Click here…
Changes in the Middle East (950-1150) as Illustrated by the Documents of the Cairo Geniza
Changes in the Middle East (950-1150) as Illustrated by the Documents of the Cairo Geniza By S.D. Goitein Islamic Civilization, edited by D.…
Satan as Myth and Metaphor In The Life of St. Antony of Egypt
Satan as Myth and Metaphor In The Life of St. Antony of Egypt By Benjamin Cox Published Online (2003) Introduction: Among certain groups of…
The Egyptian Specie Market and the Gold Crisis of the Fifteenth Century
The Egyptian Specie Market and the Gold Crisis of the Fifteenth Century By Ian Blanchard Lecture presented at the École des Hautes Études en…
Gunpowder Composition for Rockets and Cannon in Arabic Military Treaties of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Gunpowder Composition for Rockets and Cannon in Arabic Military Treaties of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries By Ahmad Y. al-Hassan ICON (International Committee…
Ayyubids, Mamluks, and the Latin East in the Thirteenth Century
Examines the relations between Muslim states in Syria and Egypt with the Crusader States after death of Saladin in 1192, and how did this relationship with the decline of the Ayyubid dynasty and the rise of the Mamluks.