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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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
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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) -
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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) -
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Nomen est omen : David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the reign of the Turks
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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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Why do we need a new textbook?
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A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 : empires, dynastic formations, and heterogeneities in Islamic West-Asia
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Studying rulers and states across fifteenth century Western Eurasia
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From Temür to Selim : trajectories of Turko-Mongol state formation in Islamic West-Asia’s long fifteenth century
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State formation in the 15th century and the Eurasian canvas : problems and opportunities
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- Book Editor
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Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences
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- Miscellaneous
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Mamluk Cairo : a crossroads for embassies
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Revisiting the Mamlūk empire : political action, relationships of power, entangled networks, and the sultanate of Cairo in late medieval Syro-Egypt
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Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de islamitische wereld : Rijks- en identiteitsvorming in islamitisch West-Azië (7de-18de eeuw)
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Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras - IX
Kristof D'hulster (UGent) , Gino Schallenbergh and Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent) -
Al-Maqrīzī’s history of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian narrative construction : towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning
(2018) Mamluk historiography revisited : narratological perspectives. In Mamluk Studies 15. p.193-210 -
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Truth and politics in Late Medieval Arabic historiography : the formation of Sultan Barsbāy’s State (1422‒1438) and the narratives of the Amir Qurqumās al-Shaʿbānī (d. 1438)
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Īnāl al-Ajrūd, al-Malik al-Ashraf
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Le Bilad al-Šām face aux mondes extérieurs : la perception de l’Autre et la représentation du pouvoir, études arabes, médiévales et modernes
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The Mamlukization of the Mamluk Sultanate? State formation and the history of fifteenth century Egypt and Syria : part II : comparative solutions and a new research agenda
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The Mamlukization of the Mamluk Sultanate? State formation and the history of fifteenth century Egypt and Syria : part I : old problems and new trends
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Caliphate and Kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage: Al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk: critical edition, annotated translation, and study by Jo Van Steenbergen
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Appearances of Dawla and Political Order in late medieval Syro-Egypt. The state, social theory, and the political history of the Cairo Sultanate (thirteenth-sixteenth centuries)
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Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras VIII: proceedings of the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd International Colloquium Organized at Ghent University in May 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013
Kristof D'hulster (UGent) , Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent) and Urbain Vermeulen(2016) -
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L’exercice du pouvoir à l’âge des sultanats : production, manifestation, réception
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Mamluk authorities and anatolian realities : Jānibak al-Ṣūfī, sultan al-Ashraf Barsbāy, and the story of a social network in the Mamluk/Anatolian frontier zone, 1435-1438
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'Mamlukisation' between social theory and social practice: an essay on reflexivity, state formation, and the late medieval sultanate of Cairo
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- Miscellaneous
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Review: Julien Loiseau: Les Mamelouks. XIIIe -XIVe siècle. Une expérience du pouvoir dans l'Islam medieval
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Al-Nasir Muhammad and the formation of the Qalawunid State
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Trading Conflicts: Venetian Merchants and Mamluk Officials in Late Medieval Alexandria [Review]
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Berbères et Arabes, citadins et nomades, califes, sultans et mystiques
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Beys, sultans, pachas et nouveaux Romains
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Égypte et Syrie: entre calife et sultan
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Domination turco-mongole
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Les premiers siècles: du royaume arabe au monde islamique
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Ibn Khaldun, 'l'art islamique' et l'harmonie de l'existence humaine
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Berbers en Arabieren, stedelingen en nomaden, kaliefen, sultans en mystici. Al-Andalus, de Maghreb en Ifriqiyya (7de-19de eeuw)
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Egypte en Syrië tussen kalief en sultan: Fatimiden (969-1171), Ayyubiden (1171-1250) en Mamluken (1250-1517)
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Turco-Mongoolse dominantie: Seldjuken (1038-1194 [Iran], 1077-1307 [Anatolië]), Ilkhanen (1256-1335) en Timuriden (1370-1506)
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De eerste eeuwen: van Arabisch rijk tot islamitisch cultuurgebied: Muhammad (ca. 570-632), het kalifaat van Medina (632-661), de Umayyaden (661-750) en de Abbasiden (750-10de eeuw)
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Eenheid, verscheidenheid en de wortels van de premoderne islamwereld: de laat-antieke tijd en het verschijnen van een islamitische wereldcultuur
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Ibn Khaldūn, 'islamitische kunst', en de harmonie van het menselijk bestaan
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Beys, sultans, pasja's en nieuwe Romeinen: het Osmaanse wereldrijk (ca. 1300-1923)
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Caught between heredity and merit: Qūṣūn (d. 1342) and the legacy of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn (d. 1341)
(2015) BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 78(3). p.429-450 -
From 'Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean' to 'Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean'
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Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt [review]
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Koning Foe'ad I Koran
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Zuidoost-Aziatische Koran
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West-Afrikaanse Koran
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De Voedsterkoran (fragment)
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Osmaanse Koran
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Noord-Afrikaanse Koran (fragment) van Andreas Masius
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Miniatuurkoran
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Maghrebijns Koransfragment
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Laat-Safavidische Koran met commentaar
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Koran van Barqoeq (deel 15)
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Houten plankje met Koranfragmenten
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Hidjaazi-achtig Koranfragment
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Atjehse Koran
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Arabisch-Turkse Koran
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Abbasidisch Koranfragment
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Revelation and tradition: texts, books, practices
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Openbaring en traditie: teksten, boeken, praktijken
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Family matters: the 'Family-in-law' impulse in Mamluk marriage policy
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Egypt and Syria in the fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras VII: proceedings of the 16th, 17th and 18th International Colloquium Organized at the University of Ghent in May 2007, 2008 and 2009
Urbain Vermeulen, Kristof D'hulster (UGent) and Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent)(2013) 223. -
Ritual, politics and the city in Mamluk Cairo: the Bayna l-Qasrayn as a dynamic lieu de mémoire, 1250-1382
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The Mamluk Sultanate as a Military Patronage State: household politics and the case of the Qalāwūnid bayt (1279-1382)
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric
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Mamluk history through architecture: monuments, culture and politics in medieval Egypt and Syria
(2011) BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 74(3). p.471-472 -
The amir Yalbughā al-Khāṣṣakī (d. 1366), the Qalāwūnid sultanate, and the cultural matrix of Mamluk society: a re-assessment of Mamluk Politics in the 1360s
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On the brink of a New Era? Yalbugha al-Khassaki (d. 1366) and the Yalbughawiya
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Caïro: van Arabisch tentenkamp tot stad van duizend-en-één nacht (641-1517)
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Ibn Khaldun and his world
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Review of Jihad in Islamic history: doctrines and practice (M. Bonner)
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Counsel and advice in the Medieval World (Byzantium and Islam).
Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent)(2008) -
Professor Urbain Vermeulen : a chronological bibliography
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Professor Urbain Vermeulen : a biography
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Continuity and change in the realms of Islam : studies in honour of professor Urbain Vermeulen
Kristof D'hulster (UGent) and Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent) -
Counsel and advice in the medieval world (Byzantium and Islam): editor's introduction
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Mamluk Eunuchs, Ḥabašīs and Waqf in the 1340s
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'Is anyone my guardian ...?' Mamlūk Under-age Rule and the Later Qalāwūnids
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Order out of chaos: patronage, conflict an Mamluk socio-political culture (1341-1382).
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Taqwīm al-Buldān al-Miṣrīya (C.U.L. Qq 65): identifying a late medieval cadastral survey of Egypt
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Mamluk elite on the Eve of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad's death (1341): a look behind the scenes of Mamluk politics
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Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras IV: Proceedings of the 9th and 10th International Colloquium organized at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in May 2000 and May 2001
Urbain Vermeulen and Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent)(2005) 140. -
review of ‘Abbud Qarah, Adab al-Furusiya ‘inda l-‘Arab and of Muhammad ibn Mankli an-Nasiri, al-Hiyal fi l-Hurub wa Fath al-Mada’in wa Hafz ad-Durub, ed. Nabil Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Aziz
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The Alexandrian Crusade (1365) and the Mamluk Sources: reassessment of the Kitāb al-Ilmām of an-Nuwayrī al-’Iskandarānī (d. 1372 AD)
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H. Kennedy (ed.), The historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800)