@Ballandalus

Historian of the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. Associate Professor of Medieval History @stonybrooku @SUNY. All views my own.

 Port Jefferson, NY
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Joined August 2014
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Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment. Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters? geniza.princeton.edu/en/docu…

List or table: T-S AS 186.224

Scrap of parchment covered with various jottings, mainly in Hebrew including the phrase "I, Shelaḥya." There are also three copies…

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Unfinished Latin translation of Ibn ʿArabshāh’s biography of Timur, by Dionysius Vossius (1612-1633). Vossius studied Arabic with Jacob Golius, whose edition of Ibn ʿArabshāh was later published (without translation) in 1636. Amsterdam University Library, ms Bc 2
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The Last Almohads? Two Descendants of the Almohad Caliphs in 14th-c. Nasrid Granada ballandalus.substack.com/p/t…
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Modern Monuments and Medieval Mythologies: The Statue of Avengalvón in Burgos substack.com/home/post/p-216…
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Majrit/Mayrit: The Andalusi Muslim Heritage of Medieval Madrid ballandalus.substack.com/p/m…
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A Note on Mudéjars: Muslim Communities in the Medieval Iberian Christian Kingdoms
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Andalusi Medical Manuscripts and the Spanish Inquisition: The Case of Ibn Rushd’s Commentary on Ibn Sīnā’s Urjūzah fī l-ṭibb substack.com/home/post/p-216…
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The Tibyān of ʿAbd Allāh b. Buluggīn (r. 1073-1090): A Fascinating Glimpse into the World of Eleventh-Century Iberia ballandalus.substack.com/p/t…
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What promises to be a definitive book from an amazing scholar
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Abū Bakr al-Ṭurṭūshī’s “Sirāj al-Mulūk”: A Masterpiece of Andalusi Political Philosophy substack.com/@ballandalus/no…
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Forthcoming! (February/March 2027). I’ll post a link to the OUP website in the coming weeks.
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Forthcoming! (February/March 2027). I’ll post a link to the OUP website in the coming weeks.
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The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing, ed. Sebastian Sobecki (@CambridgeUP, October 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdates… cambridge.org/pl/universityp… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievaltravelling #medievalsociety
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Thrilled to share that my book, Boundaries of Belonging, is coming out with Cambridge University Press in April. It traces how belonging was defined and contested, how loyalties shifted, and how these dynamics shaped everyday life and imperial politics in the Ottoman world.
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#Forthcoming An exciting new study of the philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī! Rosabel P. Ansari, Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Social Network Analysis and Medieval History, ed. Matthew Hammond (@ArcHumanities, July 2025) facebook.com/MedievalUpdates… arc-humanities.org/978180270… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalsociety
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My DFG-funded project on Islamic genealogical trees will convene a workshop next week. Please do let me know if you are in the neighborhood. For the program visit the link 👇or see below. #GenealogicalTrees #Genealogy #IslamicPoliticalThought ioa.uni-bonn.de/isl/de/nachr…
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An article (in Portuguese) about the MSS of the 18th-c. Damascene-born polyglot scholar & translator João de Sousa (Yuhannā al-Dimashqī). Alongside Arabic & Portuguese, he was fluent in French, Italian, Maltese, Castilian, Turkish, Persian (& some Latin). academia.edu/6679900/_Manusc…
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Christie's sale is today! I was particularly interested in this volume of Sahih al-Bukhari, attributed to the Hafsid Tunisia, 15th CE. Its binding covers share striking similarities with those of the mushaf copied by the Almohad caliph al-Murtada in Marrakesh in the 13th CE!
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