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The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. It consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars in three parts. Each part represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry. Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, Víctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef.

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Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). His many publications on late medieval Syro-Egyptian history include Caliphate and Kingship (Brill, 2016), Trajectories of State Formation (ed.) (Brill, 2020) and A New History of the Islamic World (Routledge, 2020). Maya Termonia is Research Associate and Co-ordinator of the Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II and the Islamic History Open Data projects (UGent, Belgium). She is Language Instructor for Egyptian Arabic and Arabic Grammar and a specialist in TAFL methodologies.

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