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DR Mohamad El-Merheb's Outputs (17)

Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part II (2024)
Journal Article
El-Merheb, M. (in press). Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part II. Crusades, 23(2), 207-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765276.2024.2385894

This 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.

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/10.1080/14765276.2023.2274342

This 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.

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/9781474479646.001.0001

The 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_011

This 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/10.1163/9789004467637

The 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.

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)
Journal Article
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

Louis IX (2020)
Other
El-Merheb, M. (2020). Louis IX. Leiden

'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses (2019)
Book Chapter
El-Merheb, M. (2019). 'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses. In K. Kellermann, A. Plassmann, & C. Schwermann (Eds.), Criticising the Ruler in Pre-Modern Societies: Possibilities, Chances, and Methods (349-376). V and R unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737010887.349

This study examines different methods employed by Muslim jurists to criticise the rulers and ruling elites of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period (c. 1230–1330). It treats three such methods: the use of the sermon at Friday prayer, legal opinion... Read More about 'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses.

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)
Journal Article
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

Islamic Political Thought: Competing Conceptions of the Rule of Law in the Middle Period (2019)
Thesis
El-Merheb, M. Islamic Political Thought: Competing Conceptions of the Rule of Law in the Middle Period. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis argues that the rule of law, limited government, and the theory of delegation were the main concerns of the political thought of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period (c. 1230 to 1330). It interprets and reclassifies Islamic authors ou... Read More about Islamic Political Thought: Competing Conceptions of the Rule of Law in the Middle Period.

Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection (2016)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/09503110.2016.1243780

This 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.