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Fien De Block
Fien De Block
fdblock.deblock@ugent.be
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Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
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Projects
Projects as PhD researcher
Planetary conjunctions in Mamlūk scholarly discourse. The science of the stars in zIjes, chronicles and eschatological texts in late fourteenth and early fifteenth century Syria and Egypt
(
2016
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2020
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Publications
Most recent publications
De Block, Fien. “Al-Zij Al-Jadid as an Instrument for Timekeeping in Fifteenth Century Cairo : The Materiality of Bodleian MS Arch.Seld. A30.”
MAMLUK STUDIES REVIEW
, edited by Marlis Saleh, 2021.
De Block, Fien. “Timekeepers-Teachers and Their Discursive Instruments : A Material Approach to Al-Jami’ Al-Mufid Fi Bayan Usul Al-Taqwim Wa-l-Mawalid (MS Leiden UL Acad. 48).”
Living with Nature and Things : Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods
, edited by Bethany J. Walker and Abdelkader al-Ghouz, vol. 23, V&R Unipress - Bonn University Press, 2020, pp. 681–702.
De Block, Fien.
(Re)Drawing the Lines : The Science of the Stars in the Late Fifteenth Century Sultanate of Cairo
. Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, 2020.
De Block, Fien. “Proefschriftenrubriek: Sterrenkunde in Het Sultanaat van Cairo.”
ZemZem Tijdschrift over Het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika En Islam
, edited by Joas Wagemakers, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 128–30.
De Block, Fien. “Een Staking, Een Professor En Een Zaghruta : Herinneringen Aan de Tunesische Revolutie.”
ZEMZEM (AMSTERDAM)
, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 91–93.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Arabic language acquisition: Media and Egyptian IV
Structures of Arabic (Language and Texts): Religious Thinking