Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2305590
Patrick Lantschner
{"title":"Intractable Cities: Urbanism in the Islamic Sphere of the Later Medieval Mediterranean World","authors":"Patrick Lantschner","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2305590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2305590","url":null,"abstract":"The urbanism of the medieval Islamic world has often been understood as a type of urbanism in which cities and the structures of states were closely entwined – a trait that has been foregrounded as...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"211 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2331907
Uri Jacob
{"title":"“Go, Sirventoys, Swiftly as an Arrow”: The Unbound Transmission of Song in Crusading Contexts","authors":"Uri Jacob","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2331907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2331907","url":null,"abstract":"Available documentation of medieval music is almost exclusively limited to bound codices. Against this backdrop, this article explores how musical information was also communicated via more easily ...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140568106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2331915
Mateusz Fafinski
{"title":"A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus","authors":"Mateusz Fafinski","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2331915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2331915","url":null,"abstract":"The Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus offer an opportunity to look at the evolution of urban structures in the middle of the fifth century at the edge of the Roman Empire. Observing a ci...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140568207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-03-16DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2325318
Amira K. Bennison
{"title":"Sainthood and Social Boundary Crossing in Medieval Islamic North Africa","authors":"Amira K. Bennison","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2325318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2325318","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how the spread of new modes of religiosity in the twelfth-century Maghrib, namely pietistic mysticism or Ṣūfism, enabled groups previously excluded from the ranks of religiou...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140151029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2317041
Ann Christys
{"title":"Introduction: Negotiating Borders in the Medieval Islamic West","authors":"Ann Christys","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2317041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2317041","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140008888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2317594
Aurora González Artigao
{"title":"Resolving Gender Ambiguity: An Initial Approach to Hermaphroditism in al-Andalus: The Case of the “Bearded Woman” of Tudela","authors":"Aurora González Artigao","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2317594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2317594","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of al-Andalus, intersexuality is a topic that has received limited exploration, despite its significance. Within this landscape, a narration discovered in al-Bakrī’s geographical tre...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139951319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-02-09DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2307815
Ryo Takahashi
{"title":"Mālikī Scholars on Christians in Umayyad al-Andalus: Juridical Dialogues and Discussions of “Mixed Families”","authors":"Ryo Takahashi","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2307815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2307815","url":null,"abstract":"This essay deals with early Mālikī doctrine in Umayyad al-Andalus regarding the Christians. It focuses in particular on “mixed family” issues, that is, those arising from the marriage between a Mus...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-02-03DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2306769
Amy C. Boland, Kyle C. Lincoln
{"title":"“However Many Priests Instructed in Latin and Arabic of Good Reputation and Letters You May Find”: Dominican Traditions About Language Acquisition and Missionary Preaching, c. 1190–1250","authors":"Amy C. Boland, Kyle C. Lincoln","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2306769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2306769","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the long history of language training and missionary preaching in the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from the early training of Domingo de Caleruega, the Order’s founder,...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2306087
Ann Christys, Maribel Fierro
{"title":"Rulers Making Boundaries Clear in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cordoban Umayyads and the Almohads","authors":"Ann Christys, Maribel Fierro","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2306087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2306087","url":null,"abstract":"Four events that took place in the medieval Islamic West (al-Andalus and North Africa west of Egypt, second/ninth–eighth/fifteenth centuries) illustrate how rulers intentionally drew clear boundari...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Al-MasāqPub Date : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2024.2306039
Marianna Mazzola
{"title":"Diplomats and Betrayers: Christian Negotiators and the Confessional Rewriting of Surrender during the Islamic Conquest (634–642 AD)","authors":"Marianna Mazzola","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2024.2306039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2024.2306039","url":null,"abstract":"Combining evidence from Muslim and Christian sources, this paper attempts to offer some plausible readings as to the identity of the mediators who negotiated the submission of the main Byzantine ci...","PeriodicalId":501637,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masāq","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}