Mustafa Banister (Ph.D., Toronto 2015) recently published his first monograph The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo (1261-1517): Out of the Shadows (Edinburgh, 2021). From 2015 to 2016 he was a Research Fellow at the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg (University of Bonn): “History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250-1517)”.
As a Postdoctoral Researcher with the ERC Project “The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II”, Mustafa is developing a research project on the historical writing and advice literature of the fifteenth-century Damascene litterateur and occasional religious scholar Aḥmad ibn ‘Arabshāh (d. 1450) which contextualizes and analyzes a set of texts the author composed for the court of the sultan al-Ẓāhir Jaqmaq (r. 1438-1453).
