Notes on Contributors
Fozia Bora
is Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of Leeds, where she serves as Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies. She is the author of Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World. The Value of Chronicles as Archives (London, 2019), a monograph study of the chronicle of Ibn al-Furāt.
Niall Christie
is an Instructor in History at Langara College, where he teaches the history of Europe and the Muslim world. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on Muslim responses to the Crusades. He is the author of numerous articles and two books: The Book of the Jihad of ʿAli ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106): Text, Translation and Commentary (Farnham, 2015); and Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity’s Wars in the Middle East, 1095–1382, from the Islamic Sources (now in its second edition; Abingdon, 2020).
Anne-Marie Eddé
is Emerita Professor of Medieval Islamic History at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She is, in particular, the author of many works on Arabic sources, on the Ayyūbid dynasty (La principauté ayyoubide d’Alep [1183–1260] [Stuttgart, 1999]), and on the history of Syria in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Saladin [Paris, 2008; English trans. Harvard University Press, 2011]). She has recently published (ed. and trans.), Muḥammad Ibn ʿAqīl. Les Perles ordonnées. Des vertus du sultan Barqūq (784–801/1382–1399). Al-Durr al-naḍīd fī manāqib al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Abī Saʿīd (Paris, 2023; in collaboration with Abdallah Cheikh-Moussa, Sorbonne-Université).
Alexander Mallett
is Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Research and Education and a member of the team of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. His main area of research interest is Christian-Muslim relations in the pre-modern Mediterranean, focusing particularly on the period of the Crusades, and on Muslim responses to and perceptions of the Franks. He has (co-)edited various related volumes, including Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant (2014) and Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (2020). He is currently working on an edition and translation of al-Maqrīzī’s Arabic chronicle al-Sulūk for the Ayyūbid period with Essam Ayyad (Qatar University), and a monograph on the Arabic historiography of the Crusades.
Maiko Noguchi
is Assistant Professor of Social Science Education at Shinshu University (Nagano, Japan) and formerly a postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. Her main area of research interest is the ʿulamāʾ of the medieval Maghrib and al-Andalus, focusing on the Almoravid and the Almohad empires, and their activities and roles in these societies. Her published articles include ‘Communicating a Biography: A Comparison of the Maghribi-Andalusi and Mashriqi Sources on al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ’ (in M. Fierro and M. Penelas [eds], The Maghrib in the Mashriq [Berlin, 2021]), and ‘The Evolution of the Oath of Allegiance (bayʿa) as Justification for Rule during the Almoravids’, Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko 79 (2021). She is currently researching the process of Arabisation and Islamisation under those Berber empires.
Clément Onimus
is Associate Professor at Paris 8 University. He has published a monograph on the internal wars of the Mamlūk sultanate (Les maîtres du jeu : pouvoir et violence politique à l’aube du sultanat mamlouk circassien [784–815/1382–1412] [Paris, 2019]) and several articles about the historiography and the social history of the late medieval Middle East.
Bogdan Smarandache
Bogdan Smarandache’s research focuses on Christian-Muslim diplomatic relations in the medieval Mediterranean. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 2019 under the co-supervision of Professor Mark D. Meyerson and Professor Emerita Linda S. Northrup. He recently began a postdoctoral fellowship with the Excellence of Science (EOS) project DiplomatiCon (no. 40007541), funded by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) and the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO-Flanders).
Gowaart Van Den Bossche
obtained his PhD in history at Ghent University in January 2019 for a dissertation on early Mamlūk historiography, chancery practice and literary culture. This dissertation won the 2020 BRAIS-De Gruyter prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World, which resulted in the 2023 publication of his first book Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt. Between 2019 and 2022 he worked as a postdoctoral Research Fellow with the KITAB Project at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, in London. He is currently a postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), working on universal historiography in early 8th/14th century Egypt and Syria. He has published articles in al-Masaq, Annales Islamologiques and Islamic Law and Society on various aspects of late medieval Islamic historiography, literature, and law.
Ayumi Yanagiya
is Research Fellow at the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library) in Tokyo and lecturer at Waseda University. Her main area of research interest is the nature of political and social ties in the post-Seljūq period (focusing particularly on the Zengid dynasty) and their transformation over time. She has published various related articles, including ‘The Establishment, Cancellation and Continuation of the khidma in Regime-Formation: Cases from the Post-Seljuq Dynasties’ in Shigaku 81/4 (2013). She is also participating in translation projects for Ibn Khaldun’s autobiography and Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari’s al-Taʿrīf bi-l-mustalah al-sharīf.