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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Courts and Qurʾāns: “ʿUthmānī” Codices from the Caliph's Residence in Medina to Topkapı Palace in Istanbul	3
The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives	3
The First Crusade and the Failure of Kerbogha’s Campaign from Mosul to Antioch (March–June 1098): A Re-evaluation	2
Paolo Diacono e il dolore: I racconti di un emozione	2
Rulers Making Boundaries Clear in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cordoban Umayyads and the Almohads*	2
Conversion and the Contest of Creeds in Early Medieval Christianity	2
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades	2
Networks of Power in al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī’s Governorship Over Irāq	1
Mining for Gold in Visigothic Iberia: Archaeological Perspectives on Economy, Landscape, and Labour	1
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne	1
Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades	1
Civil Unrest in Long Late Antiquity: Approaching a Fragmented Phenomenon	1
Narrating the Jewish Presence in Islamic Jerusalem: A Muslim–Christian–Jewish Debate	1
Establishing Communication Patterns in a Frontier Zone: The Jewish Communities in the Early Kingdom of Valencia	1
Contexts of the Early Creation of Islamic Trading Partnerships: The Ibāḍī and Sunnī Legal Casuistry	1
Persecution and the Philosophical Minority: Leo Strauss and the Medieval Social and Historical Reality	1
“ Who are the Richest of the Franks? ”: Italian Merchants in the Mediterranean Maghrib, 1100–1300	1
Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460	1
The Paulicians: Heresy, Persecution and Warfare on the Byzantine Frontier, c. 750– 880	1
“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
In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem	0
Monastic Unrest on the Border of Carolingian Italy: The Strange Case of Abbot Poto of San Vincenzo al Volturno	0
Urban Sanitation in al-Andalus: The Case of Qurṭuba (Tenth to Thirteenth Century)	0
Visions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia: The Enigmas of Paschasius of Dumium’s Liber geronticon	0
The Georgian Kingdom and Georgian Art: Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period	0

Shipboard Liturgies: Maritime Religious Practices and the “Dry Mass” in the Late Medieval Mediterranean	0
Nomads in the Middle East	0
Interreligious Communication: Transmediterranean Perspectives (7th–16th Cent.)	0
A Restless City: Edessa and Urban Actors in the Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus	0
Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought	0
Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World	0
Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean	0
The Migration of Men: Connections and Identity in the Late Medieval Latin Mediterranean	0
Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161)	0
Qalāwūnid Expansions and Power Strategies in the Syro-Anatolian Frontier: A Case Study of the Citadel of Kakhtā	0
Constructing Hydraulic Infrastructure in the ʿAbbāsid and Ṭūlūnid Capitals: Water Conduits in Baghdad, Samarra and Cairo between the Eighth and Ninth Centuries	0
Iberian Mooring: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism	0
Mālikī Scholars on Christians in Umayyad al-Andalus: Juridical Dialogues and Discussions of “Mixed Families”*	0
Das neue Volk Gottes in Hispanien: Die Bibel in der christlich-iberischen Historiographie vom 8. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert	0
In Defiance of History: Orosius and the Unimproved Past	0
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages	0
Resolving Ambivalence through (Claimed) Excommunication: The Depiction of al-Ashʿath b. Qays in Early and Classical Arabic-Islamic Historiography	0
Sharing Sacred Space in the Medieval Mediterranean: Introduction	0
The Chobanids of Kastamonu: Politics, Patronage, and Religion in Thirteenth Century Anatolia, (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey)	0
Approaching the Early Medieval Iberian Economy from the Ground Up	0
Resolving Gender Ambiguity: An Initial Approach to Hermaphroditism in al-Andalus: The Case of the “Bearded Woman” of Tudela	0
Investitures for Non-Muslim Communal Leaders: Inter-Religious Communications between Muslim Sovereigns and Their Agents in the Middle East	0
Destroyed Books, Ransomed Books, Mobile Books: The Early Crusades and the Fate of Tripoli’s Library	0
The “Long History” of Nidūy – from Tannaitic Literature to Late Antiquity	0
“Smash His Head with a Rock”: Imāmic Excommunications and the Production of Deviance in Late Ninth-Century Imāmī Shīʿism	0
The Identity of the Monti di Barca in Late Medieval European Sources	0
Protest and Public Space in Fourth-Century Rome	0
The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France: Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221–1422	0
War and Violence in the Western Sources for the First Crusade	0
Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond	0
Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades	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
Intractable Cities: Urbanism in the Islamic Sphere of the Later Medieval Mediterranean World	0
Talking Maps	0
The Islamic-Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades	0
The Role of Cities in the Early Medieval Economy	0
Commercial Deceit: Fraudulent Trade from the Ports of Cilicia and Cyprus to the Mamlūks	0
Ifrīqiya’s Status in the Caliphal Hierarchy in the Marwānid Period	0
Riches beyond the Horizon: Long-Distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th–12th centuries)	0
Badr al-Dīn Luʾluʾ al-Armanī, Emir of Mosul: Multireligious Coexistence under a “Tolerant” Ruler	0
Sainthood and Social Boundary Crossing in Medieval Islamic North Africa	0
A Dominican History of Muslim Sicily: Revisiting the Epistola Fratris Conradi	0
Weavers, Merchants and the Taxman: The Changing Socio-economic Contexts of Textile Circulation in the Late Antique Mediterranean	0
A Dwarf Among Giants: A Diplomatic and Political Reading of Florence’s First Commercial Expedition to Ottoman Constantinople	0
El Castil de Genoveses de Málaga (siglos XIV–XV): Un barrio comercial fortificado en el Mediterráneo islámico	0
Muslims and Jews in the Late Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Gloss of the Decretum (Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 283/676)	0
Mallorca at the Crossroads of Powers in the Ninth Century	0
Cross-Religious Cultural Agency: The Liminal Features of Jewish Converts to Islam in Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq	0
The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road	0
Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography	0

Leadership, Social Cohesion, and Identity in Late Antique Spain and Gaul (500–700)	0
“Lest the Faithful Doubt or the Heretics Mock”: Patriarchs, Caliphs and Implementing Excommunication in the Jacobite Church c.650–850	0
Arabic Poetry as a Mirror of Social Critique and Individualism in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: A Study of Social Criticism in ‘Abbāsid Poetry	0
The Fatimids: The Rule from Egypt	0
The birka s of Cairo in the Mamlūk Period: A Topographic and Socio-Economic Study	0
Italy, Cyprus and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean	0
The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise Against Christians and Jews. A Study and Accompanying Text Edition	0
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book that Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos	0
The Deeds of the Neapolitan Bishops: A Critical Edition and Translation of the “Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum”	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
The Yanıkköy Mosque: Architecture as a “Pathway of Portability” within Mediaeval Rural Contexts of Transition ¹	0
The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of “Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium”	0
Literature and Documents Meet at Qayrawān	0
“But Hermengyld Loved Hire Right as Hir Lyf”: Conversion, Gender Transposition and History in The Man of Law’s Tale	0
Comparing “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Middle East	0
Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100–c. 1300	0
Codex Epistolaris Carolinus: Letters from the popes to the Frankish rulers, 739-791	0
Ejércitos benditos: Yihad y memoria en al-Andalus (siglos X–XIII)	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
Making the East Latin: The Latin Literature of the Levant in the Era of the Crusades	0
An “Earthly” Manifestation of Power: The Architectural and Urban Contexts of Iznik Tiles Produced under the Patronage of the Ottoman Palace	0
Small Change in the Early Middle Ages: New Perspectives on Coined Money c. 400–1100	0
Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge	0
Usāma ibn Munqidh (d. 584/1188) and the Importance of Religion in Muslim Court Life	0
Shadow Diplomacy: Pisa, Denia, and a Lost Muslim-Christian Alliance in the Eleventh-Century Mediterranean	0
The Book of Clear Arabic Expression Regarding the Arab Tribes of Egypt: An Edition, Translation and Study of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Bayān wa-l-iʿrāb ʿan mā fī arḍ Miṣr min al-aʿrāb	0
Guardian of Faith: Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Discourse on Frontier Garrisoning versus Pious Residence in Mecca	0
The Mosque Finial ( Jāmūr ) in al-Andalus: Symbolism and Christian Resignification	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
Excommunication and apostasy: re-drawing Jewish communal boundaries in Fāṭimid and Ayyūbid Egypt	0
History of the Adriatic: A Sea and its Civilization	0
Living on the Edge: Commerce and Trade on the Southwest Lusitanian Port Ensembles in Late Antiquity	0
The Early Medieval Peasant Economy: An Analysis of Archaeological Data from Central Portugal	0
The Foundation of Governance (Asās al-siyāsa): A Mirror for Princes from the Late 12th Century CE	0
Testators and the Visigothic State: A “from the Ground Up” Approach to Inheritance Law	0
Pastoralism and Peasant Accounting in Post-Roman Times: The Numerical Slates of the Sistema Central	0
Thābit ibn Qurra On Talismans . Ps.-Ptolemy On Images 1-9. Liber prestigiorum Thebidis of Adelard of Bath	0
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al-buldan of al-Baladhuri	0
The Idol of Cádiz: A longue-durée and Transcultural Construction of the Sacred	0
Institutional and Functional Aspects of Hunting in Byzantium	0
May the Umayyad Coastal Ribāṭ Fortress of Kafr Lāb Have Been Built in Memory of Mujāhid ibn Jabr?	0
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective	0
The Soft Power of Inter-Religious Learning: Negotiating Transregional Exchanges at the Fifth/Eleventh-Century Fāṭimid Court*	0
The Late Mamlūk Transition of the 1380s: The View from the North Caucasus	0
Messina, 1167–68: A Microhistory of Urban Agency in the Twelfth-Century Kingdom of Sicily	0
A Fifteenth-century Fatwa Issued by al-Wansharīsī on the Fate of Christian Prisoners: Death, or Captivity?	0
Diplomacy by Dispensation: Arms Embargoes, “Illicit” Gifts and Papal Oversight in Mantuan–Ottoman Exchange	0
Shaping Identities in a Holy Land: Crusader Art in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Patrons and Viewers	0
Exaltation of Women in the Chapter on Muḥammad in Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam	0
Islamic Law and the Reconfiguration of Transmediterranean Mobility: The Emergence and Impact of a Post-Roman Mobility Regime (2nd–4th/8th–10th Centuries)	0
The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia	0
Rethinking the Ninth-Century Islamic Presence in Peninsular Italy: A Perspective Through Islamic History and Politics	0
Land, Law and Water Politics: IbnʿAsākir’s Chapter on Umayyad Canal Building in the Hinterland of Damascus	0
The Sovereignty of the Scholar-Sultan: An ʾ Ayyūbid Prince's Defence of Abū Ḥanīfa	0
Diplomats and Betrayers: Christian Negotiators and the Confessional Rewriting of Surrender during the Islamic Conquest (634–642 AD)	0
The Business of Bishops: The Ecclesiastical Economy of Visigothic Iberia	0
The Years of the Infidels: African Latin Christianity from the Vandals to the Almohads	0
The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus	0
Communications between Western Pilgrims and People in the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century	0
The Purported Role of the Ghassānids and the Byzantines in Muḥammad’s Migration to Medina: A Reappraisal	0
Exporting Silk from Byzantine Greece: Reconstructing the Trade Logistics of the Theban Silk Industry	0
Narratives of Sedition in Late Antique Historiography and in Photius	0
“Go, Sirventoys , Swiftly as an Arrow”: The Unbound Transmission of Song in Crusading Contexts	0
The Conquest of al-Andalus. A Translation of Fatḥ al-Andalus (Routledge Medieval Translations)	0
What Does Ibn Khaldūn Mean by the Term Mādda? On Human Association and Political-Economic Organisation	0
Translating Ketubot : Jewish Families, Christian Notaries, and Latin Marriage Contracts in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon	0
Al-Ṭabarī’s Madhhab Jarīrī and Ascetic Legacies at the ʿAbbāsid Court	0
Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400–800	0
Rethinking Norman Italy: Studies in Honour of Graham A. Loud	0
Islam and Judaism: Religious Attitudes and Identity in the Medinan Era	0
City-republics of Northern Italy and the Sicilian Vespers: The Perception of the Revolt in the Urban Chronicles	0
Bridge of Civilizations: The Near East and Europe, c.1100-1300	0