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Fien De Block

fdblock.deblock@ugent.be

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 - 2020)

Publications

Most recent publications

De Block, Fien. “Al-Zīj al-Jadīd as an Instrument for Timekeeping in Fifteenth Century Cairo : The Materiality of Bodleian MS Arch. Seld. A 30.” MAMLŪK STUDIES REVIEW = MAJALLAT AL-DIRĀSĀT AL-MAMLŪKĪYAH, vol. 24, 2021, pp. 101–15, doi:10.6082/1aqn-6g50.
De Block, Fien. “Marginalia as Traces of Changing Knowledge Culture : The Circulation of Taqwīm Texts in the Late Mamlūk Sultanate.” Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions, edited by George Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke, vol. 23, Gorgias Press, 2021, pp. 33–46, doi:10.31826/9781463241964-004.
De Block, Fien. “Proefschriftenrubriek : Sterrenkunde in Het Sultanaat van Cairo.” ZEMZEM (AMSTERDAM), 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.
De Block, Fien, and Ruth Sudhölter. “Signalementen.” ZEMZEM (AMSTERDAM), vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 218–25.

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