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This note describes a lipsanotheca (a small container of relics, placed within an altar) from the church of Santa Maria de Cap d’Aran. The container, now preserved in the Museu dera Val d’Aran, is of blown glass, and it has relief-cut... more
Manuel de préparation à la question de CAPES d'Histoire-géographie et d'Agrégation d'Histoire 2015-2016.
Handbook prepared for the French national competitive examinations for secondary school teachers in History 2015-2016
Handbook prepared for the French national competitive examinations for secondary school teachers in History 2015-2016
A partir de l'étude du chapitre 38 de l'ouvrage du savant mecquois al-Fâsî (m. 1429), Shîfâ' al-gharâm bi-akhbâr al-balad al-harâm, consacré à l'histoire du hajj, cet article tente d'identifier les modes de représentation du pouvoir... more
The paper discusses the role that Islamic values can play in articulating Islam as an ethical tradition that can shape the international relations.
Biographies contained in Ibn al-Abbar's Takmila that provide some relevant historical or geographical information. The study is referred to the manuscript of this work preserved in the library of al-Azhar (Cairo). Biographies are... more
"In his recent book „The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean“ (Cambridge 2012), Ronnie Ellenblum argues that a series of climatic disasters in the 11th cent. led to the decline of polities in the Near East and prepared the ground for... more
Résumé Dans le dār al-islām, c’est une conception juridique et contractuelle du mariage qui prévaut : le mariage y est, en effet, un contrat qui fixe les droits et les obligations des époux. Sur la base d’un corpus de documents juridiques... more
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo llamar la atención sobre una obra que ha pasado un tanto desapercibida. Considerada como un trabajo menor de un autor satírico, al-Jāḥiẓ, el Kitāb Fakhr al-Sūdān 'alā al-Bīḑān (La superioridad de... more
Reseña de los libros publicados por Diego Melo Carrasco: Las alianzas y negociaciones del sultán: Un recorrido por la historia de las "relaciones internacionales" del sultanato nazarí de Granada (siglos XIII-XV), Murcia, Editum, 2015;... more
Religious experience is a dimension of human experience which deals with the interpretation of concrete events according to evaluative categories. This is rooted in the essence of religion itself whose task is to provide an... more
The International Conference The Impact of Arabic Sources on Divination and the Practical Sciences in Europe and Asia was held in Erlangen (2014 January 21-23) at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, in... more
"Le «Primavere Arabe» hanno rettificato la percezione precedentemente ereditata, che i popoli arabi vivessero coscientemente nell’immobilità, nell’incapacità di modificare qualsiasi aspetto inerente le proprie decisioni politiche, sociali... more
As the published outcome of Christ’s PhD research, Trading Conflicts formulates extremely valuable insights into the Venetian presence in Alexandria, into late medieval Alexandrian socio-economic practice, and into local actors’ mediation... more
This chapter examines discourses on polygyny among East Syrian Christians in late antique and early Islamic Iraq and Iran. Through such discourses, articulated principally in legal texts but also in chronicles and biographical... more
L’histoire de la comptabilité d’Etat en pays d’Islam jusqu’à la fin du Moyen Âge, telle qu’elle est décrite dans les rares travaux qui lui ont été consacrés, présente le récit d’une normalisation progressive, marquée notamment par le... more
Reviewed by Mawil lzzi-Dien, published in "Journal of Islamic Studies", 6 no. 2 Jul. 1995, pp. 259-260.
From Turkestan to Andalusia Spain, Medieval Islamic cities geographically occupied a wide area, and thus they had left their mark on the medieval era. Being one of these Islamic cities, Cordoba was seized by the Arabs in 711 and the first... more
The article argues that several American Muslim organizations that had roots in political Islam are now moving away from their roots and embracing American Exceptionalism.
En este trabajo se realizan algunas reflexiones sobre el consumo del vino en Al-Andalus a traves de las fuentes y la arqueología.
... among the ulama in late medieval times were successful in stamping out most of the suspect fields of al-ul m al-aqliyya (philosophical sciences) from scholarly inquiry. Their specific propositions, concerns, and even termin-ology... more
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle Ages were divided in many ways. But one thing they shared in common was the fear that God was offended by wrong belief. Medieval Heresies: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam is the first... more
Decentralization of the Caliphate power early in the 11th century fostered the appearance of multiple local powers on the head of new independent states, which were ruled by different ethnicities. This political configuration of the... more
In the "Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750", Jelle Bruning maps al-Fusṭāṭ’s development from a garrison town founded by Muslim conquerors near modern Cairo (Egypt) in c. 640 C.E. into a bustling provincial... more
A recounting of the fabled Hajj of Mali emperor Mansa Musa
This article centres on the Latin translations of the Qur’an by Robert of Ketton (1142–3/537–8) and Mark of Toledo (1209/606), as viewed within the context of their earlier translations of scientific works. In previous scholarship, the... more
The book Apocalypse of Empire is a responsible effort in the quest for a deeper understanding of early Islam within the continuum of the history of religions. Students of Jewish, Christian and Islamic history will appreciate how this... more