Review of: Michael A. Cook: A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
(2025)
Journal Article
El-Merheb, M. (online). Review of: Michael A. Cook: A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X25000114
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Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part II (2024)
Journal Article
El-Merheb, M. (2024). Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part II. Crusades, 23(2), 207-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765276.2024.2385894This article argues that Louis IX’s crusade, defeats, and captivity shaped the attempts of Sultan al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam Ghiyāth al-Dīn Tūrānshāh (d. 648/1250) and amīr Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Hadhabānī (d. 658/1260) to gain power in Egypt. It hig... Read More about Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part II.
Review of: James Wilson, Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham, 1050–1128 (2024)
Journal Article
El-Merheb, M. (2024). Review of: James Wilson, Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham, 1050–1128. The English Historical Review, 139(600), 1264-1266. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae185
Contrasting Crusader Kings: Frederick II vs. Louis IX in Arabic Accounts (2024)
Digital Artefact
El-Merheb, M. (2024). Contrasting Crusader Kings: Frederick II vs. Louis IX in Arabic Accounts
Uit de kruistochttijd zijn diplomatieke lessen te trekken (2024)
Digital Artefact
El-Merheb, M. (2024). Uit de kruistochttijd zijn diplomatieke lessen te trekken
Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part I (2023)
Journal Article
El-Merheb, M. (2023). Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part I. Crusades, 22(2), 215-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765276.2023.2274342This article examines the role of Louis IX’s defeat and captivity during the Seventh Crusade in the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate. It focuses on the attempt of amir Fakhr al-Dīn ibn al-Shaykh (d. 647/1250), al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb’s (r.... Read More about Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part I.
Review of: Carl F. Petry: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781108456999 (2023)
Journal Article
El-Merheb, M. (2023). Review of: Carl F. Petry: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781108456999. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 86(2), 367-369. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X2300037X
Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate (2022)
Book
El-Merheb, M. (2022). Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479646.001.0001The legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period tackled a central question in their political thought: how best to govern their communities. This book proposes a taxonomy of the main themes and conc... Read More about Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate.
Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa (2021)
Book Chapter
El-Merheb, M. (2021). Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa. In M. El-Merheb, & M. Berriah (Eds.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches (207-230). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004467637_011This study examines the interrelatedness between professional mobility and the production of Islamic political thought. It argues that the diverse professional careers of the two Shāfiʿī-Ashʿarī jurists and Sufis, Ibn Ṭalḥa (d. 652/1254) and Ibn Ja... Read More about Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa.
Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches (2021)
Book
El-Merheb, M., & Berriah, M. (Eds.). (2021). Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004467637The present edited volume offers a collection of new concepts and approaches to the study of mobility in pre-modern Islamic societies. It includes nine remarkable case studies from different parts of the Islamic world that examine the professional mo... Read More about Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches.