Portrayals of the Later Abbasid Caliphs: The Role of the Caliphate in Buyid and Saljūq-era Chronicles, 936-1180
While the caliphs lacked military power during the Buyid and Saljūq eras, they were not mere hostages of the secular powers in the eyes of the chroniclers.
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The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade
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The Origins of Muslim Prayer: Sixth and Seventh century religious influences on the Salat ritual
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Envisioning Salvation: An Ecumenical Ekphrasis in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois
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Taking the Templar Habit: Rule, Initiation Ritual, and the Accusations against the Order
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Crocodiles and Crusades: Egypt in Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
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Armenian Architecture in Twelfth-Century Crusader Jerusalem
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King Arthur in the Lands of the Saracens
Throughout the bulk of the Arthurian literary tradition, romancers, novelists, poets, and historians of King Arthur and his Knights have relegated the world’s medieval games to that of the European chessboard.
The Double Perspective: Arab Mathematics and Renaissance Art
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From the Worship of Relics to the Cult of Precious Blood
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The Three Young Men in The Furnace and The Art of Ecphrasis in The Coptic Sermon By Theophilus of Alexandria
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The Christians Whose Force is Hard: Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period
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Pharmacy in medieval Islam and the history of drug addiction
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The motives of the earliest crusaders and the settlement of Latin Palestine, 1095–1100
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The role of the ‘ūlamā during the ‘Abbāsid caliphate: with special reference to the period of Hārūn al-Rashīd and Al-Māʻmūn
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Dietetics in Medieval Islamic Culture
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An Arab Game in the North Pole?
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The Late Antique Kosmos of Power between Byzantium and Iran: international ornament and royal identity in the sixth and seventh centuries
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Hunting Arabia Felix: Politics of the Byzantines, Sasanids, Ethiopians and Arabs in South Arabia in the 6th century A.D
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The history of Arabic medicine based on the work of Ibn Abi Usabe’ah 1203-1270
My cardinal objective is to introduce a comprehensive and up-to-date document covering the most important aspects of the historiography of Arabic Medicine.