The Inventing and Reinventing of the Muslim Saint Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam: From Louis IX’s Crusade to the Syrian War
(2025)
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El-Merheb, M. (in press). The Inventing and Reinventing of the Muslim Saint Ibn ʿAbd al-Salam: From Louis IX’s Crusade to the Syrian War. Journal of Sufi Studies,
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Review of: Michael A. Cook: A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (2025)
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El-Merheb, M. (2025). 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, 165-167. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X25000114
Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part II (2024)
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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)
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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
Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part I (2023)
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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)
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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
Review of: Carole Hillenbrand, ed., Syria in Crusader Times: Conflict and Co-Existence, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2019, 400 pp., 26 illustrations, ISBN 9781474429702. (2020)
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El-Merheb, M. (2020). Review of: Carole Hillenbrand, ed., Syria in Crusader Times: Conflict and Co-Existence, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2019, 400 pp., 26 illustrations, ISBN 9781474429702. Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East, 97(2), 597-600. https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2020-0038
Review of: Sohaira Z.M. Siddiqui: Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xiii, 312 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. ISBN 978 1 10849678 0. (2019)
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El-Merheb, M. (2019). Review of: Sohaira Z.M. Siddiqui: Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xiii, 312 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. ISBN 978 1 10849678 0. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 82(3), 533-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x19000788
Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection (2016)
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El-Merheb, M. (2016). Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection. Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 28(3), 282-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2016.1243780This article examines the portrayal of Louis IX in medieval Arabic historiography to show the importance of cross-cultural Mediterranean interaction. It argues that the image of Louis was influenced by information originating from the Sicilian Hohens... Read More about Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection.