In 1347 slave traders from the Black Sea brought with them something far deadlier than a cargo of future Mamluk warriors: the Black Death. Plague infested the whole of the known world, but nowhere ...

This sub-project explores the role of translation in the formation and early stages of the Ottoman-Turkic literary corpus, by juxtaposing this with its role in the development of the Mamluk-Turkic ...

AMMAN – Ceramics from Gharandal constitute an important component of a much larger research project on the social and economic history of Late Antique and early Islamic Jordan and Palestine.