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Papers

(The median citation count of Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Men Who Would Be King: Moorish Political Hierarchies and Imperial Policy in Byzantine Africa	2
Exaltation of Women in the Chapter on Muḥammad in Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam	2
Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghrib: The Impact of Climate on the Economic, Social and Political Reorganisation of the Maghrib al-Aqṣā in the Eighth–Ninth Centuries: The Cas	2
The Modern Historiography of Byzantine and Islamic Philosophy: A Comparison	2
From Amida to Famagusta via Cairo: The Syrian Scribe Yūsuf ibn Sbāṭ in His Eastern Mediterranean Context c. 1350–1360	1
What Does Ibn Khaldūn Mean by the Term Mādda? On Human Association and Political-Economic Organisation	1
Reconsidering the Fort at Civetot (Kibotos) and the Recent Discovery of a Submerged Building Complex in Nicomedia Bay	1
Commercial Deceit: Fraudulent Trade from the Ports of Cilicia and Cyprus to the Mamlūks	1
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds (Medieval Mediterranean)	1
May the Umayyad Coastal Ribāṭ Fortress of Kafr Lāb Have Been Built in Memory of Mujāhid ibn Jabr?	0
The Early Medieval Peasant Economy: An Analysis of Archaeological Data from Central Portugal	0
The Conquest of the Holy Land by Salah al-Din. A Critical Edition and Translation of the Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum	0
Italy and Early Medieval Europe: Papers for Chris Wickham	0
Crusading Europe: essays in honour of Christopher Tyerman	0
The Mount Sinai Monastery: A Successful Example of Shared Holy Space	0
“There is no harm in it”: Muslim Participation in Levantine Christian Religious Festivals (750–1000)	0
New Saladins: Spiritual Crusading and the Typology of Crusading Enemies	0
Retraction: Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097–1291	0
Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World	0
The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300	0
Caesar Bardas and the Earthquake of Constantinople: The Rival Depictions of the Event in the Arabic and Byzantine Sources	0
Les Tables Géographiques du manuscript du sultan rasūlid al-Malik al-Afḍal. Édition, Traduction Et Commentaire	0
Retraction: The Eastern Mediterranean frontier of Latin Christendom	0
A Fifteenth-century Fatwa Issued by al-Wansharīsī on the Fate of Christian Prisoners: Death, or Captivity?	0
Minting, State and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom	0

Retraction: Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130	0
The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan	0
Italy, Cyprus and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean	0
The Fatimids and Egypt	0
Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World	0
Chronicles of Qalāwūn and his son al-Ashraf Khalīl / Baybars’ Successors: Ibn al-Furāt on Qalāwun and al-Ashraf	0
Mining for Gold in Visigothic Iberia: Archaeological Perspectives on Economy, Landscape, and Labour	0
Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161)	0
Authority beyond Tribe and State in the “Middle Maghrib”	0
To Live Like a Moor. Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain	0
Qur'ān Quotations Preserved in Papyrus Documents, 7th-10^th Centuries and the Problem of Carbon Dating Early Qur'āns	0
The Role of Cities in the Early Medieval Economy	0
Placing Messina: The Politics and Geography of Bartolomeo da Neocastro’s Historia Sicula (c. 1294)	0
Author, Warriors, Martyrs, Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the land of Rome (13^th-15^th Centuries)	0
Comparing “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Middle East	0
The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades	0
Jews and the Fāṭimid Caliphate	0
Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400–800	0
Nomads in the Middle East	0
Rethinking the Ninth-Century Islamic Presence in Peninsular Italy: A Perspective Through Islamic History and Politics	0
Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm 1240-1330,	0
A Dwarf Among Giants: A Diplomatic and Political Reading of Florence’s First Commercial Expedition to Ottoman Constantinople	0
Riches beyond the Horizon: Long-Distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th–12th centuries) Riches beyond the Horizon: Long-Distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th	0
Identifying the Rustamid Imamate. State Building and Urban Foundation through the Case of Tāhart	0
In Defiance of History: Orosius and the Unimproved Past	0
Sharing on the Way to the Holy Land: The Shrine of Our Lady of Cassiope on the Island of Corfu	0
Living on the Edge: Commerce and Trade on the Southwest Lusitanian Port Ensembles in Late Antiquity	0
The Significance of the Written Word in European–Mamlūk Diplomatic Missions	0
The Kaʿba Orientations, Readings in Islam’s Ancient House	0
Talking Maps	0
Approaching the Early Medieval Iberian Economy from the Ground Up	0
The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth	0
“To Breathe Life into the Past as a Means of Bringing New Blood to the Present”: The Instructional Poetry of Abraham Ibn Ezra	0
Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East	0
Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean	0
The Late Mamlūk Transition of the 1380s: The View from the North Caucasus	0
Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond	0
Alexandria and Antioch in the First ʿAbbāsid Century	0
Not Sharing the Holy Land: Attitudes towards Sacred Space in Papal Crusade Calls, 1095–1234	0
Theology, Law and Social Configuration: Views and Attitudes towards Theological Innovators (mubtadiʿūn)	0
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture	0
Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond	0
Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Political Advice	0
Mālikī Scholars on Christians in Umayyad al-Andalus: Juridical Dialogues and Discussions of “Mixed Families”	0
The Medieval Turks: collected papers	0
Retraction: Approaches to the Byzantine Family	0
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260–1500	0
Response to Ann Chamberlin, Review of Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture, reviewed by Ann Chamberlin, Doi: 10.1080/09503110.2020.1815298	0
Islam and Judaism: Religious Attitudes and Identity in the Medinan Era	0
The Institutions of the Shīʿī Imāmate: Towards a Social History of Early Imāmī Shiʿism*	0

The Bible and Crusade Narrative in the Twelfth Century, Crusading in Context	0
The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Ya‘qūbī. An English Translation	0
Military Jihād against Muslims: ‘Abd Allāh b. Yāsīn and the Foundation of a Saharan Political Unit that Would Conquer the Maghreb and al-Andalus (Eleventh Century)	0
Introduction: Group Formation and Maintenance in the ʿAbbāsid and Fāṭimid Caliphates, 750–1000	0
The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325	0
Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 1200-1500	0
The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of “Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium”	0
Excommunication and apostasy: re-drawing Jewish communal boundaries in Fāṭimid and Ayyūbid Egypt	0
Retraction: The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700)	0
“Lest the Faithful Doubt or the Heretics Mock”: Patriarchs, Caliphs and Implementing Excommunication in the Jacobite Church c.650–850	0
The Seljuqs and their successors: art, culture and history	0
The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation of the “Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum” The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation	0
Warfare and the Making of Early Medieval Italy (568-652)	0
Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity: Poetry, Visual Culture, and the Cult of Martyrs / The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul / Churches and Social Power in Early Medieval	0
Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World	0
Resolving Ambivalence through (Claimed) Excommunication: The Depiction of al-Ashʿath b. Qays in Early and Classical Arabic-Islamic Historiography	0
Heretics, Schismatics, or Catholics: Latin Attitudes to the Greeks in the Long Twelfth Century	0
Institutional and Functional Aspects of Hunting in Byzantium	0
Bridge of Civilizations: The Near East and Europe, c.1100-1300	0
The Lost Archive. Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue	0
Retracted Article: A Companion to Latin Greece	0
Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs	0
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al-buldan of al-Baladhuri	0
“However Many Priests Instructed in Latin and Arabic of Good Reputation and Letters You May Find”: Dominican Traditions About Language Acquisition and Missionary Preaching, c. 1190–1250	0
Crusading and Archaeology: some archaeological approaches to the Crusades	0
Resolving Gender Ambiguity: An Initial Approach to Hermaphroditism in al-Andalus: The Case of the “Bearded Woman” of Tudela	0
Ejércitos benditos: Yihad y memoria en al-Andalus (siglos X–XIII)	0
Studying the “Shared Sacred Spaces” of the Medieval Levant: Where Historians May Meet Anthropologists	0
Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy	0
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades	0
Testators and the Visigothic State: A “from the Ground Up” Approach to Inheritance Law	0
Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States	0
Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought	0
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture	0
The Other Side of Empire. Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain	0
City-republics of Northern Italy and the Sicilian Vespers: The Perception of the Revolt in the Urban Chronicles	0
The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany: warfare and diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-1148	0
Southern Italy as Contact Zone and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages: Religious-Cultural Heterogeneity and Competing Powers in Local, Transregional and Universal Dimensions	0
Retraction: Mediterranes Kaisertum und imperiale Ordnung. Das lateinische Kaiserreich von Konstantinopel	0
Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800	0
L'invention du cadi: la justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l'islam	0
The “ʿasākir al-Shām”: Medieval Arabic Historiography of the Siege, Capture and Battle of Antioch during the First Crusade 490–491/1097–1098	0
The Paulicians: Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c. 750– 880	0
Mallorca at the Crossroads of Powers in the Ninth Century	0
Unveiling al-Isfār ʽan ḥukm al-asfār: Structural Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Medical Manual for Travellers	0
Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths	0
The Translator of Desires, Poems	0
Iberian Mooring: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism	0
Rulers Making Boundaries Clear in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cordoban Umayyads and the Almohads	0
Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas–Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context	0
The Filthy Animal and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Re-assessing the Case for Letter 308 and the Conquest of Lisbon, 1147	0
Pastoralism and Peasant Accounting in Post-Roman Times: The Numerical Slates of the Sistema Central	0
Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World	0
The Almoravid and Almohad Empires	0
Reframing the Qarāmānids: Exploring Cultural Life through the Arts of the Book	0
Sharing Sacred Space in the Medieval Mediterranean: Introduction	0
The Banū Yahrāsan, Political and Sacred Leaders in Ibāḍī Djerba	0
Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography	0
“Smash His Head with a Rock”: Imāmic Excommunications and the Production of Deviance in Late Ninth-Century Imāmī Shīʿism	0
Recalcitrant Crusaders? The Relationship between Southern Italy and Sicily, Crusading and the Crusader States, c.1060-1198	0
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne , by Sam Ot	0
Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader and Conqueror; Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean	0
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective , by Corisande Fenwick, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, 224 pp., £19.99 (P	0
Ifrīqiya’s Status in the Caliphal Hierarchy in the Marwānid Period	0
Rethinking Norman Italy: Studies in Honour of Graham A. Loud	0
Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval	0
Warrior Women in Ibn Rushd’s Commentary on Plato’s Republic: Mythico-Barbarian Geography in the Case for Female Guardians, an Unsolved Passage	0
Codex Epistolaris Carolinus: Letters from the popes to the Frankish rulers, 739-791	0
Friends of the Emir, Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought	0
Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades	0
The “Long History” of Nidūy – from Tannaitic Literature to Late Antiquity	0
The Business of Bishops: The Ecclesiastical Economy of Visigothic Iberia	0
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe	0
Roger II of Sicily: Family, Faith, and Empire in the Medieval Mediterranean World	0
Diplomats and Betrayers: Christian Negotiators and the Confessional Rewriting of Surrender during the Islamic Conquest (634–642 AD)	0
Introduction: Negotiating Borders in the Medieval Islamic West	0
The Normans and the ‘Norman Edge’: Peoples, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe	0
The Treaty between Muḥammad and the Christians of Najrān in the Chronicle of Seert: Negotiating the Rights of the Conquered and the Re-writing of the Past	0
The Absence of the Jewish Usurer Trope in Andalusī Written Sources	0