OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The “ʿasākir al-Shām”: Medieval Arabic Historiography of the Siege, Capture and Battle of Antioch during the First Crusade 490–491/1097–1098	2
New Saladins: Spiritual Crusading and the Typology of Crusading Enemies	1
Ejércitos benditos: Yihad y memoria en al-Andalus (siglos X–XIII)	1
The “Long History” of Nidūy – from Tannaitic Literature to Late Antiquity	1
Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States	1
Sharing on the Way to the Holy Land: The Shrine of Our Lady of Cassiope on the Island of Corfu	1
The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany: warfare and diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-1148	1
Rulers Making Boundaries Clear in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cordoban Umayyads and the Almohads*	0
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades	0
The Early Medieval Peasant Economy: An Analysis of Archaeological Data from Central Portugal	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
Leadership, Social Cohesion, and Identity in Late Antique Spain and Gaul (500–700)	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
Resolving Gender Ambiguity: An Initial Approach to Hermaphroditism in al-Andalus: The Case of the “Bearded Woman” of Tudela	0
Shadow Diplomacy: Pisa, Denia, and a Lost Muslim-Christian Alliance in the Eleventh-Century Mediterranean	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
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
Exporting Silk from Byzantine Greece: Reconstructing the Trade Logistics of the Theban Silk Industry	0
Crusading and Archaeology: some archaeological approaches to the Crusades	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
Islam and Judaism: Religious Attitudes and Identity in the Medinan Era	0
An “Earthly” Manifestation of Power: The Architectural and Urban Contexts of Iznik Tiles Produced under the Patronage of the Ottoman Palace	0
Rethinking Norman Italy: Studies in Honour of Graham A. Loud	0
Pastoralism and Peasant Accounting in Post-Roman Times: The Numerical Slates of the Sistema Central	0
The Occult Court: ʿAlī Ṣafī’s Boon for the Khan (1522) as Timurid-Safavid Manual of Boozing and Battling Magic and Marker of Early Modernity	0

Not Sharing the Holy Land: Attitudes towards Sacred Space in Papal Crusade Calls, 1095–1234	0
Jews and the Fāṭimid Caliphate	0
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective	0
Sharing Sacred Space in the Medieval Mediterranean: Introduction	0
The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades	0
Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography	0
Codex Epistolaris Carolinus: Letters from the popes to the Frankish rulers, 739-791	0
Visions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia: The Enigmas of Paschasius of Dumium’s Liber geronticon	0
Mālikī Scholars on Christians in Umayyad al-Andalus: Juridical Dialogues and Discussions of “Mixed Families”*	0
Ifrīqiya’s Status in the Caliphal Hierarchy in the Marwānid Period	0
Establishing Communication Patterns in a Frontier Zone: The Jewish Communities in the Early Kingdom of Valencia	0
Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge	0
Diplomats and Betrayers: Christian Negotiators and the Confessional Rewriting of Surrender during the Islamic Conquest (634–642 AD)	0
Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages: Routes and Myths	0
Translating Ketubot : Jewish Families, Christian Notaries, and Latin Marriage Contracts in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon	0
The Institutions of the Shīʿī Imāmate: Towards a Social History of Early Imāmī Shiʿism*	0
Comparing “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Middle East	0
Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World	0
The Kaʿba Orientations, Readings in Islam’s Ancient House	0
The Medieval Turks: collected papers	0
Sainthood and Social Boundary Crossing in Medieval Islamic North Africa	0
Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161)	0
Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East	0
Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean	0
Das neue Volk Gottes in Hispanien: Die Bibel in der christlich-iberischen Historiographie vom 8. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert	0
The Business of Bishops: The Ecclesiastical Economy of Visigothic Iberia	0
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al-buldan of al-Baladhuri	0
Talking Maps	0
Approaching the Early Medieval Iberian Economy from the Ground Up	0
The Translator of Desires, Poems	0
Messina, 1167–68: A Microhistory of Urban Agency in the Twelfth-Century Kingdom of Sicily	0
A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus	0
“Smash His Head with a Rock”: Imāmic Excommunications and the Production of Deviance in Late Ninth-Century Imāmī Shīʿism	0
The birka s of Cairo in the Mamlūk Period: A Topographic and Socio-Economic Study	0
Introduction: Group Formation and Maintenance in the ʿAbbāsid and Fāṭimid Caliphates, 750–1000	0
Italy, Cyprus and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean	0
Institutional and Functional Aspects of Hunting in Byzantium	0
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe	0
Intractable Cities: Urbanism in the Islamic Sphere of the Later Medieval Mediterranean World	0
A Fifteenth-century Fatwa Issued by al-Wansharīsī on the Fate of Christian Prisoners: Death, or Captivity?	0
Resolving Ambivalence through (Claimed) Excommunication: The Depiction of al-Ashʿath b. Qays in Early and Classical Arabic-Islamic Historiography	0
Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval	0
Protest and Public Space in Fourth-Century Rome	0
The Identity of the Monti di Barca in Late Medieval European Sources	0
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne	0
Reconsidering the Fort at Civetot (Kibotos) and the Recent Discovery of a Submerged Building Complex in Nicomedia Bay	0
Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800	0
The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of “Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium”	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

Bridge of Civilizations: The Near East and Europe, c.1100-1300	0
Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades	0
Shaping Identities in a Holy Land: Crusader Art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Patrons and Viewers	0
Monastic Unrest on the Border of Carolingian Italy: The Strange Case of Abbot Poto of San Vincenzo al Volturno	0
Excommunication and apostasy: re-drawing Jewish communal boundaries in Fāṭimid and Ayyūbid Egypt	0
“Go, Sirventoys , Swiftly as an Arrow”: The Unbound Transmission of Song in Crusading Contexts	0
What Does Ibn Khaldūn Mean by the Term Mādda? On Human Association and Political-Economic Organisation	0
Riches beyond the Horizon: Long-Distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th–12th centuries)	0
Crusading Europe: essays in honour of Christopher Tyerman	0
Minting, State and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom	0
City-republics of Northern Italy and the Sicilian Vespers: The Perception of the Revolt in the Urban Chronicles	0
Studying the “Shared Sacred Spaces” of the Medieval Levant: Where Historians May Meet Anthropologists	0
Friends of the Emir, Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought	0
The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300	0
Introduction: Negotiating Borders in the Medieval Islamic West	0
Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Political Advice	0
Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades	0
May the Umayyad Coastal Ribāṭ Fortress of Kafr Lāb Have Been Built in Memory of Mujāhid ibn Jabr?	0
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book that Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos	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
The Idol of Cádiz: A longue-durée and Transcultural Construction of the Sacred	0
A Dwarf Among Giants: A Diplomatic and Political Reading of Florence’s First Commercial Expedition to Ottoman Constantinople	0
Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond	0
Testators and the Visigothic State: A “from the Ground Up” Approach to Inheritance Law	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
In Defiance of History: Orosius and the Unimproved Past	0
Muslims and Jews in the Late Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Gloss of the Decretum (Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 283/676)	0
The Absence of the Jewish Usurer Trope in Andalusī Written Sources	0
Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World	0
Living on the Edge: Commerce and Trade on the Southwest Lusitanian Port Ensembles in Late Antiquity	0
Iberian Mooring: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism	0
Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy	0
Thābit ibn Qurra On Talismans . Ps.-Ptolemy On Images 1-9. Liber prestigiorum Thebidis of Adelard of Bath	0
Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades	0
The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives	0
Urban Sanitation in al-Andalus: The Case of Qurṭuba (Tenth to Thirteenth Century)	0
Heretics, Schismatics, or Catholics: Latin Attitudes to the Greeks in the Long Twelfth Century	0
Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400–800	0
Commercial Deceit: Fraudulent Trade from the Ports of Cilicia and Cyprus to the Mamlūks	0
Rethinking the Ninth-Century Islamic Presence in Peninsular Italy: A Perspective Through Islamic History and Politics	0
The First Crusade and the Failure of Kerbogha’s Campaign from Mosul to Antioch (March–June 1098): A Re-evaluation	0
Theology, Law and Social Configuration: Views and Attitudes towards Theological Innovators (mubtadiʿūn)	0
Caesar Bardas and the Earthquake of Constantinople: The Rival Depictions of the Event in the Arabic and Byzantine Sources	0
The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation of the “Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum”	0
Mallorca at the Crossroads of Powers in the Ninth Century	0
Nomads in the Middle East	0
Investitures for Non-Muslim Communal Leaders: Inter-Religious Communications between Muslim Sovereigns and Their Agents in the Middle East	0
Mining for Gold in Visigothic Iberia: Archaeological Perspectives on Economy, Landscape, and Labour	0
Exaltation of Women in the Chapter on Muḥammad in Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam	0
Networks of Power in al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī’s Governorship Over Irāq	0
“Lest the Faithful Doubt or the Heretics Mock”: Patriarchs, Caliphs and Implementing Excommunication in the Jacobite Church c.650–850	0
“There is no harm in it”: Muslim Participation in Levantine Christian Religious Festivals (750–1000)	0
The Yanıkköy Mosque: Architecture as a “Pathway of Portability” within Mediaeval Rural Contexts of Transition ¹	0
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture	0
Unveiling al-Isfār ʽan ḥukm al-asfār: Structural Analysis of a Fifteenth-Century Medical Manual for Travellers	0
The Late Mamlūk Transition of the 1380s: The View from the North Caucasus	0
Alexandria and Antioch in the First ʿAbbāsid Century	0
Bohemond of Taranto: Crusader and Conqueror; Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean	0
The Mount Sinai Monastery: A Successful Example of Shared Holy Space	0
The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus	0
The Paulicians: Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c. 750– 880	0