Jo Van Steenbergen

The Mamluk Sultanate from the Perspective of Regional and World History

Economic, Social and Cultural Development in an Era of Increasing International Interaction and Competition

The Mamluk Sultanate represents an extremely interesting case study to examine social, economic and cultural developments in the transition into the r...

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800

Empire, Dynastic Formations, and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia

A History of the Islamic World, 600–1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that char...

Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives

This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of 'factuality' versus 'ficti...

Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage

al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk

In Caliphate and Kingship Jo Van Steenbergen presents a revisionist cultural biography, a critical edition and an annotated translation of al-Ḏahab ...