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This project investigates how pious endowments shaped state-building in the Ottoman Empire between 1450 and 1650. Pious endowments (waqf, singular) were trusts of property devoted to charitable activities that constituted ...read more

This project investigates a corpus of historiographical texts, predominantely universal chronicles, composed by four historians closely related to the court of the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad: Baybars al-Manṣūrī, al-Nuwayrī, Ibn ...read more

Arabic was catapulted onto the world stage by the Arab-Islamic conquests of the 7th century CE. Within a few centuries, it was the international medium of science and communication. ‘Classical ...read more

This research project will study how political order and historical truth were jointly constructed in the late medieval Middle East. It will look in particular at how contemporary Islamic scholars/historians ...read more