“Tenth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies”

Several researchers associated with CEFREPA participated in the International Symposium at Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait city on March 5, 6 and 7, 2024.

Panelists discussed different topics:
Eric Vallet (University of Strasbourg), “Words of Factionalism in Yemen (7th-9th/13th-15th centuries): Text mining into the Rasulid historiographical corpus”
Mehdi Berriah (Institut français du Proche-Orient), “References to early Islam in Mamluk jihad propaganda and the construction of the image of the mujāhid sultan”
Hassan Bouali (The French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula), “The Transmission of Early Islamic Knowledge and the Praise of Mecca during the Mamelouk Era : The case of Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Ṭabarī (d. 694/1295)”
Makram Abbès (The French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula), “Fâkihat al-Khulafâ’ by Ibn ‘Arabshâh: A mirror of princes from the Mamluk period”