- Work address
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Blandijnberg 2
9000 Gent - Jo.VanSteenbergen@UGent.be
- ORCID iD
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0000-0002-0026-0174
- Bio (via ORCID)
- Jo Van Steenbergen (Ph.D. KULeuven [Belgium], 2003) is a research professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ghent University (Belgium). He engages with the social and cultural history of the pre-modern Islamic world, with a particular focus on the later Islamic middle period (c. 1200- c. 1500), on Egypt and Syria, on the practices, discourses and structural appearances of power elites in the Sultanate of Cairo (c. 1200-1517), and on the de/construction of grand narratives in Mamluk/Islamic history. He was a research fellow of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC, 1997-8, 2003), a research assistant at KULeuven (Belgium) and the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO) (1998-2003), a lecturer at the University of St Andrews (2004-7), a senior research fellow at the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg: History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250-1517) (Bonn, 2014-15), and a visiting lecturer/professor at the British Museum and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) (2006-13), at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) (2008), and at the National University of Malaysia (2009).
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The Islamic world : nomads, urban elites and courts in competition
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The Islamic world : community, leadership and contested patterns of continuity
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The Islamic world : conquest, migration and accommodating diversity
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The Islamic world : sources
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Political culture in the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world, c.700-c.1500 : a framework for comparing three spheres
Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent) and Björn Weiler(2021) -
- Book Chapter
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History writing, adab, and intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria : old and new readings
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- Book Editor
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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
Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent) and Maya Termonia (UGent) -
- Book Chapter
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Nomen est omen : David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the reign of the Turks
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- Journal Article
- A2
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Fifteenth-century Arabic historiography : introducing a new research agenda for authors, texts and contexts
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- Miscellaneous
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