prof. Jo Van Steenbergen
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- 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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Storia del mondo islamico. Impero, formazioni dinastiche ed eterogeneità nell’Asia occidentale islamica pre-moderna (600-1800)
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From the "Sultan of Islam" to the "Realms of the World". Lists of Rulers, Politics of Scale, and Claims to Sovereignty in Ninth-/Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Chronicles
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Crisis in de Moslimwereld : een kritische oproep
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In the sultan's salon : learning, religion, and rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501-1516)
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The Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo
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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)
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Rethinking 'the Mamlūk State' with Ibn Khaldūn : 'Mamlukization,' ʿaṣabiyya, and historiographical imaginations of the Sultanate of Cairo (1200s-1500s)
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A physician on the Nile : a description of Egypt and journal of the famine years by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī
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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)
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Where are the awlād al-nās? Arabic historiography, mamlūkization, and the semantics and discursive politics of a polysemous concept