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)
Member
From28 Jun 2023 → Today - Department of Languages and Cultures (Department)
Member
From1 Jun 2012 → Today - Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa (Department)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2011 → 31 May 2012 - Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2011 → 31 May 2012 - Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa (Department)
Member
From1 Feb 2007 → 31 May 2012
Projects
11 - 13 of 13
- ERC Professorship Jo Van SteenbergenFrom1 Oct 2009 → 1 Oct 2019Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Special Research Fund Professorship in arabistics and islamic studiesFrom1 Oct 2009 → TodayFunding: BOF - ZAP BOF mandates
- The 'Mamlukisation' of the Mamluk sultanate. Political traditions and state formation in 15th century Egypt and SyriaFrom1 Jan 2009 → 31 Oct 2013Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
Publications
1 - 10 of 83
- The Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo(2023)
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen
Pages: 79 - 98 - Where are the awlād al-nās? Arabic historiography, mamlūkization, and the semantics and discursive politics of a polysemous concept(2022)Series: Mamluk Studies
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen, Anna Kollatz
Pages: 25 - 96 - Social infrastructures, military entrepreneurship, and the making of the Sultan’s court in fifteenth-century Cairo : the case of the Court Office of ‘the Chief Head of the Guards’ (raʾs nawbat al-nuwab)(2022)
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen, Maya Termonia
Pages: 802 - 858 - Rethinking 'the Mamlūk State' with Ibn Khaldūn : 'Mamlukization,' ʿaṣabiyya, and historiographical imaginations of the Sultanate of Cairo (1200s-1500s)(2022)Series: Islamic History and Civilization
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen, Maaike van Berkel, Letizia Osti
Pages: 117 - 139 - The Islamic world : nomads, urban elites and courts in competition(2021)
Authors: Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne, Jo Van Steenbergen, Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Björn Weiler
Pages: 456 - 486 - Political culture in the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world, c.700-c.1500 : a framework for comparing three spheres(2021)
Authors: Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen, Björn Weiler
- The Islamic world : community, leadership and contested patterns of continuity(2021)
Authors: Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne, Jo Van Steenbergen, Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Björn Weiler
Pages: 330 - 364 - The Islamic world : conquest, migration and accommodating diversity(2021)
Authors: Andrew Marsham, Eric Hanne, Jo Van Steenbergen, Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Björn Weiler
Pages: 212 - 248 - The Islamic world : sources(2021)
Authors: Jo Van Steenbergen, Jonathan Shepard, Catherine Holmes, Björn Weiler
Pages: 101 - 130 - Literarisierung reconsidered in the context of sultanic biography : the case of Shāfiʿ b. ʿAlī’s Sīrat al-Nāṣir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705)(2021)Series: Islamic History and Civilization
Authors: Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Jo Van Steenbergen, Maya Termonia
Pages: 466 - 489