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Researcher
Jo Van Steenbergen
- Keywords:premodern Islamic history, history of state formation, Arabich historiography
- Disciplines:Medieval history, Political history, Middle Eastern history, Medieval literature, Regional and urban history, Historiography, Study of Islam and qur'anic studies, Cultural history, Literatures in Arabic
Affiliations
- Department of History (Department)
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From28 Jun 2023 → Today - Department of Languages and Cultures (Department)
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From1 Jun 2012 → Today - Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa (Department)
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From1 Oct 2011 → 31 May 2012 - Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa (Department)
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From1 Oct 2011 → 31 May 2012 - Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa (Department)
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From1 Feb 2007 → 31 May 2012
Projects
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- Universal historiography and millenarian kingship in late medieval Egypt and Syria: the third reign of al-Nasir Muhammad and the discourse of historyFrom1 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Social and Intellectual Interaction between the Zoroastrians, Jains and Hindus under the Islamic Rule in Gujarat.From1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2023Funding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Pirenne Consortium for Medieval StudiesFrom1 Jul 2018 → TodayFunding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate II: historiography, political order and state formation in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria.From30 Dec 2016 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: H2020 - Frontier Research (ERC)
- A Reappraisal of Jewish Poetry from Mamluk Egypt. Communal Identity and Elite Culture in the Arabic and Hebrew Oeuvre of Joseph ben Tanhum YerushalmiFrom1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Turkic and Circassian between Ethnonym and Socionym. The Linguistic and Ethnic Dimensions to Mamluk Identity as a Discursive ConstructFrom1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Historical biography, hagiography and the marvelous in late medieval Egypt, Syria and France: a comparative study of the diachronic use of mirabilia in the biographical traditions of Baybars, Qalāwūn, al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and Louis IX.From1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Research Consortium ‘Global Studies’ within the framework of the appointment of a research coordinatorFrom1 Jan 2013 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Pirenne Consortium for Medieval StudiesFrom1 Jan 2013 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- The mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate. Political Traditions and State Formation in the 15 Century Egypt and SyriaFrom1 Oct 2009 → 30 Sep 2014Funding: ERC - Ideas
Publications
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- Trajectories of state formation across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia : Eurasian parallels, connections and divergences(2020)
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen
- A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 : empires, dynastic formations, and heterogeneities in Islamic West-Asia(2020)
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen
- The road to the citadel as a chain of opportunity : Mamluks' careers between contingency and institutionalization(2020)Series: Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance
Authors: Kristof D'hulster, Jo Van Steenbergen
Pages: 159 - 200 - From Temür to Selim : trajectories of Turko-Mongol state formation in Islamic West-Asia’s long fifteenth century(2020)Series: Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen
Pages: 27 - 87 - Studying rulers and states across fifteenth century Western Eurasia(2020)Series: Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance
Authors: Jan Dumolyn, Jo Van Steenbergen
Pages: 88 - 155 - State formation in the 15th century and the Eurasian canvas : problems and opportunities(2020)Series: Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen
Pages: 1 - 20 - Revisiting the Mamlūk empire : political action, relationships of power, entangled networks, and the sultanate of Cairo in late medieval Syro-Egypt(2019)Series: Mamluk Studies
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen, Reuven Amitai, Stephan Conermann
Pages: 77 - 108 - Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de islamitische wereld : Rijks- en identiteitsvorming in islamitisch West-Azië (7de-18de eeuw)(2018)
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen
- Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras - IX(2018)
Authors: Kristof D'hulster, Gino Schallenbergh, Jo Van Steenbergen
- Al-Maqrīzī’s history of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian narrative construction : towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning(2018)Series: Mamluk Studies
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen, Stephan Conermann
Pages: 193 - 210