Pub Date : 2021-04-27DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1913934
Susan Bain
ABSTRACT This article examines the Historia Sicula of Bartolomeo da Neocastro, written c. 1294. Neocastro was a judge based in the north-eastern Sicilian city of Messina, and his chronicle provides one of the most comprehensive contemporaneous accounts of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion (1282) and the years that followed. The broad geographical scope of the coverage has meant that scholars have traditionally used the Historia to piece together a narrative of events in a politically complex period or else to provide context for more concentrated studies. However, this article shows that Neocastro can be utilised to access the more local experience of the events of the Vespers and Messinese political culture. It discusses how Neocastro constructs the relationship and connections between Messina and other cities and regions, and the significance of those connections. It focuses on his treatment of Sicily, southern Calabria and the Crown of Aragon.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-18DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1907521
P. Booth
ABSTRACT By using several contemporaneous compilations now embedded in the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria, and by putting these in conversation with parallel texts produced in Syriac, this article explores the revitalisation of the contacts between the Severan patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch in the context of the late Marwānid and ʿAbbāsid periods. It argues that, while the commitment to communion was a shared inheritance of the late Roman period, the same commitment was renewed and refashioned in a quite different context, wherein the shifting distribution of power within the caliphate had placed the Alexandrian patriarchs in a position of distinct disadvantage and discomfort, far removed from the centres of patronage and of power.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-18DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1907520
Edmund Hayes
ABSTRACT Mushegh Asatryan has recently criticised the use of the word “community” as a framework for understanding early Shiʿism. This article makes the case in favour of community as a framework when used precisely as a foundation for a properly sociological approach to early Imāmī Shiʿism. Imāmī Shiʿism has most often been treated as a community of belief. However, if we understand the early Imāmī community through the lens of its social institutions centred upon the unifying presence of a visible imām, we are better able to explain the coherence of the community and how it came to define its boundaries until its collapse and supersession by the Twelvers with their doctrine of Occultation.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-10DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1907522
Nimrod Hurvitz
As Muslim societies split into different theological trends, proto-Sunnīs and later Sunnīs, asked themselves how they should interact with individuals who strayed from their system of beliefs. One of their concerns was whether members of theological movements such as Shīʿīs, Muʿtazilīs, Khawārij and Qadarīs should be considered as equal believers within wider Muslim society, or marginalised and treated as second-class believers. Should they establish a hierarchy based on beliefs, much like the social grading that differentiates between Muslims and non-Muslims, or uphold an egalitarian social structure? And if such a hierarchy should come into being, what should be its concrete sociolegal implications? It should be pointed out from the outset that Sunnī jurists distinguished between innovators and heretics. A heretic, most jurists would agree, is one who rejects essential Muslim truths about the Prophet or Allāh, and in so doing leaves the fold of Islam. In his discussion of apostasy Yohanan Friedmann remarks:
随着穆斯林社会分裂成不同的神学派别，原始逊尼派和后来的逊尼派都在问自己，他们应该如何与偏离自己信仰体系的人互动。他们关心的一个问题是，神学运动的成员，如shi - z、Mu - z - z、Khawārij和qadarz，是否应该在更广泛的穆斯林社会中被视为平等的信徒，还是被边缘化并被视为二等信徒。他们应该建立一个基于信仰的等级制度，就像区分穆斯林和非穆斯林的社会等级一样，还是坚持一个平等的社会结构?如果这样的等级制度出现了，它具体的社会法律含义应该是什么?应该从一开始就指出，孙派法学家区分了创新者和异端。大多数法学家都会同意，异教徒是拒绝接受关于先知或Allāh的基本穆斯林真理的人，这样做就离开了伊斯兰教。在他关于叛教的讨论中，Yohanan Friedmann说:
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Pub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2020.1845521
James Wilson
ABSTRACT This article discusses accounts in medieval Arabic source material of the siege, capture and battle of Antioch during the First Crusade. It begins with an overview of how the reporting of the crusaders’ conquest of Antioch varied between the regional Arab historiographical traditions. This is followed by an assessment of the importance Arabic chronicles placed on developments at Antioch from 490/1097 to 491/1098 by contrasting their coverage of these events with that of comparable episodes in Syrian history. Focus then shifts to how accounts of the Frankish conquest of Antioch changed over time, outlining attempts to attribute blame to individuals. Additionally, developments at Antioch during the First Crusade are placed in the context of comparable military activity in northern Syria during the late fifth/eleventh century, removing the siege of Antioch and the defeat of the “'asākir al-Shām”, the Muslim relief force, from the traditional narrative structure of the First Crusade. The final section outlines instances of potential cross-pollination between Arabic and Latin source material.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-11DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1875178
Eve Krakowski
To the editors: Thank you for devoting space to a review of my book, Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press,...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2020.1865773
Corisande Fenwick, A. Merrills
The history of ancient and medieval North Africa has all too often been written as the history of its conquerors. Accounts of Roman, Vandal, Byzantine or Islamic North Africa typically focus on the...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1877421
A. Grant
This book comprises a contextualised study of the mercantile route between Ayas (Laiazzo) and Tabriz that Francesco Balducci Pegolotti (hereafter ‘P.’) incorporated into his famous Pratica della Me...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1877426
Nicholas Morton
The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt represents an important contribution to the flourishing series ‘Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture’ which is current...
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1877427
John b. MacKechnie
While Mamluk era slavery remains understudied, existing work on the topic has focused on military slaves in particular, and considerably little scholarly attention has been given to the place of do...
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