Details of a Researcher - MALLETT, Alexander Philip John

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MALLETT, Alexander Philip John

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Affiliation

Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies

Job title

Associate Professor(non-tenure-track)

Concurrent Post

Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Education

2005.10

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2009.07

University of Edinburgh Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies PhD
2002.09

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2004.06

University College London History Department MA Medieval Studies
1999.09

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2002.06

University College London History Department BA History

Research Experience

2021.04

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Now

Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies Associate Professor
2018.06

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2021.03

Waseda University Waseda Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor (without tenure)
2017.09

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2018.05

Leiden University Leiden Institute for Area Studies Research Fellow in Digital Asia
2014.07

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2017.08

University of Exeter Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Research Fellow
2013.06

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2014.06

Cengage Learning Digital Product Editor
2012.10

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2013.05

Royal Holloway, University of London History Department Lecturer
2012.03

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2012.06

Universite de Nantes Maison des sciences de l'hommes Research Fellow
2010.01

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2011.12

Royal Holloway, University of London History Department Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
2009.01

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2009.12

University of Birmingham Theology and Religion Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Professional Memberships

2020.05

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Now

Japan Society for Near Eastern Studies
2019.06

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Now

Japan Association for Middle East Studies
2017

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Now

Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
2012.03

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Now

Higher Education Academy (UK)
2007.03

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Now

Royal Asiatic Society

Research Areas

History of Asia and Africa
History of Europe and America

Research Interests

Islamic History
Medieval History
Subaltern Muslims
Arabic Historiography
Early-Modern Malta
Crusades
Christian-Muslim Relations

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Papers

The Trial of Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur: Text, Translation, and Commentary

Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider

The Moorish Slave Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta (edited volume) 24 - 304 2022.07 [Refereed]

Authorship：Lead author
Problematising the Islamic Evidence for the Crusades: The Frankish Red Sea Raid of 1183

Alex Mallett

Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning: Essays in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand (edited volume) 66 - 73 2022.06 [Refereed] [Invited]
Al-ʿAẓīmī’s Taʾrīkh for the Crusading Period: The Years 489-508/1095-1115

Alex Mallett

Crusades 19 2021.01 [Refereed]
Responses to Genocide: The Muslim Response to the Crusades

Alex Mallett

A Cultural History of Genocide. Volume 2: The Middle Ages (edited volume) 123 - 143 2021 [Invited]
The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church

Alex Mallett, Johannes den Heijer

Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (edited volume) 2020

Authorship：Lead author
Infernalising the Enemy: Images of Hell in Muslim Descriptions of the Franks

Alex Mallett

Syria in Crusader Times (edited volume) 184 - 194 2019.11 [Invited]
The Crusades

Alex Mallett

The Routledge Companion to Christian-Muslim Relations (edited volume) 126 - 134 2017 [Invited]
Two writings of al-Ṭurṭushī as Evidence for Early Muslim Reactions to the Frankish Crusader Presence in the Levant

Alex Mallett

Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 107 153 - 178 2017 [Refereed]
The Muslim Memory of the Crusades

Alex Mallett

Remembering the Crusades and Crusading (edited volume) 216 - 230 2016 [Invited]
Muslim Responses to Western Intervention: A Comparative Study of the Crusades and Post-2003 Iraq

Alex Mallett

Journal of Medieval Military History 14 133 - 147 2016 [Invited]
The Battle of Inab

Alex Mallett

Journal of Medieval History 39 48 - 60 2013 [Refereed]

DOI

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Islamic Historians of the Ayyubid Era and Muslim Rulers from the Early Crusading Period: A Study in the Use of History

Alex Mallett

AL-MASAQ-ISLAM AND THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN 24 ( 3 ) 241 - 252 2012.12 [Refereed]

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This article examines the presentation of Muslim rulers from the early crusading period, 490540/10971146 in six of the main chronicles written during the first half of the seventh/thirteenth century. It discusses the themes, ideas and topoi in each, demonstrating that the historians appear to have been divided into two camps over their presentation of these rulers, based on their personal views of the rulers of their time. The article also examines why this division may have occurred, and considers its ramifications for modern scholarship of Arabic historiography, Islamic history and the history of the Crusades, in both the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries.

DOI

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The life of Aq-Sunqur al-Bursuqi: some notes on twelfth-century Islamic history and thirteenth-century Muslim historiography

Alex Mallett

TURKISH HISTORICAL REVIEW 2 ( 1 ) 39 - 56 2011 [Refereed]

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This article examines the career of the Turkish emir Aq Sunqur al-Bursuqi, who was active across a wide region of the Middle East in the first half of the twelfth century. In so doing, it highlights important aspects of the Crusades and Counter-Crusade more widely during this period. It also analyses the presentation of al-Bursuqi in the historical chronicles which form the basis of studying the early twelfth century, in order to further understanding of the late-sixth/twelfth and early-seventh/thirteenth century societies in which they were written.

DOI

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Citation

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The "Other" in the Crusading Period: Walter the Chancellor's Presentation of Najm al-Din Il-Ghazi

Alex Mallett

AL-MASAQ-ISLAM AND THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN 22 ( 2 ) 113 - 128 2010 [Refereed]

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This paper examines ideas surrounding the presentation of the Muslim "other'' in Latin writings of the early period of the Crusades. Using a case-study approach of the views of one chronicler, Walter the Chancellor, in his work Bella Antiochena, on one individual Muslim, Najm al-Din Il-Ghazi, the paper studies aspects of the image of Il-Ghazi, the reasons for them, how and why they develop throughout the chronicle, and whether, from the other information given in the chronicle, it would be possible to interpret the information in other ways. The conclusions reached demonstrate that the reason for the vitriol in Walter's presentation was his wish to justify the Crusades and suggest that the writers of Outremer started to develop their own cross-cultural responses to Islam, independent of mainstream European thought, because of their situation.

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A trip down the Red Sea with Reynald of Chatillon

Alex Mallett

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 18 141 - 153 2008.04 [Refereed]

DOI

Scopus

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Books and Other Publications

Magic in Malta, 1605. The Moorish Slave Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta

Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider, Dionisius Agius( Part： Joint editor)

Brill 2022.07
Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography

Alex Mallett( Part： Edit)

Brepols 2021
Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097-1291

Alex Mallett( Part： Sole author)

Ashgate 2014
Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant

Alex Mallett( Part： Edit)

Brill 2014
Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Volume 5, 1350-1500

Alex Mallett( Part： Joint editor)

Brill 2013
Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Volume 4, 1200-1350

Alex Mallett( Part： Joint editor)

Brill 2012
Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Volume 3, 1050-1200

Alex Mallett( Part： Joint editor)

Brill 2011
Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Volume 2, 900-1050

Alex Mallett( Part： Joint editor)

Brill 2010

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Misc

Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe

Alex Mallett

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 122 ( 5 ) 1575 - 1576 2017.12

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

DOI
From Martyr to Murderer: Representations of the Assassins in Twelft- and Thirteenth-Century Europe

Alex Mallett

SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES 91 ( 2 ) 545 - 547 2016.04

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

DOI
The Race for Paradise. An Islamic History of the Crusades

Alex Mallett

BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 78 386 - 387 2015.06

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

DOI
Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the Fada'il-i Balkh

Alex Mallett

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 120 ( 3 ) 1152 - 1152 2015.06

Book review, literature introduction, etc.
Conquering and governing Islamic Sicily in the XI and XII centuries

Alex Mallett

AL-MASAQ-ISLAM AND THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN 26 ( 3 ) 330 - 331 2014.09

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

DOI
Oppressed in the Land? Fatwas on Muslims Living under Non-Muslim Rule from the Middle Ages to the Present

Alex Mallett

ISLAM AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS 25 ( 3 ) 411 - 413 2014.07

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

DOI
Europe and the Islamic World: A History

Alex Mallett

ISLAM AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS 24 ( 4 ) 548 - 549 2013.10

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

DOI
Crusades: medieval worlds in conflict

Alex Mallett

ISLAM AND CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS 23 ( 2 ) 230 - 231 2012

Book review, literature introduction, etc.

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Research Projects

Migrations: Movement of People, Goods and Ideas

Waseda University International Academic Events Organization Grant

Project Year :

2019.10

　

　

Alex Mallett, Tina Shrestha
Responses to Globalisation in the Early-Modern Period: Vittorio Cassar and the Roman Inquisition on Malta

Waseda University Special Research Projects for Newly-Hired Faculty

Project Year :

2018.10

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2019.03

Alex Mallett
Magic in Malta, 1605. The Moorish Slave Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta

UK AHRC Research Grant

Project Year :

2014.07

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2017.08

D.A. Agius, C.R. Rider, A. Mallett
Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097-1291

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

Project Year :

2010.01

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2011.12

Alex Mallett
Cross-Cultural Perceptions in Chronicles of the Crusades

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Abdullah al-Mubarak Postgraduate Scholarship

Project Year :

2007.09

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2008.08

Alex Mallett

Presentations

Imad al-Din al-Isfahani's Account of the Battle of Hattin: Typology as a Strategy of Legitimisation in Medieval Islamic Narratives

Alex Mallett

Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (Rethymnon, Crete)

Presentation date： 2022.07
Deconstructing the Arabic Sources for the Fifth Crusade

Alex Mallett

Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies (Marburg, Germany)

Presentation date： 2022.07
Christians, Turks, and the First Crusade

Alex Mallett

Conference of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies (Oberlin University)

Presentation date： 2020.05
Christians, Turks, and the First Crusade

Alex Mallett [Invited]

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies series (Oxford University)

Presentation date： 2020.02
The Reception of Ideas in the Early-Modern Globalised World: Vittorio Cassar and the Roman Inquisition on Malta

Alex Mallett [Invited]

Migration and Cultural Spaces (Nanjing University)

Presentation date： 2019.11
The Reception of Ideas in the Early-Modern Globalized World: Vittorio Cassar and the Roman Inquisition on Malta

Alex Mallett

Migrations: Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas (Waseda University)

Presentation date： 2019.10
Spain, Sicily, Syria: Muslim Explanations for the First Crusade

Alex Mallett

World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (Seville, Spain)

Presentation date： 2018.07
Urban II, the Turks, and the Causes of the First Crusade

Alex Mallett [Invited]

The Crusades and the Latin East seminar (Institute of Historical Research, London)

Presentation date： 2017.05
Infernalising the Enemy: Images of Hell in Muslim Descriptions of the Franks

Alex Mallett [Invited]

The History of Syria, 1099-1250: Conflict and Co-existence (St Andrews University, UK)

Presentation date： 2016.04
Christian-Muslim Relations on Hospitaller Malta: Evidence from an Inquisition Magic Trial

Alex Mallett [Invited]

Reading Early Modern Conference

Presentation date： 2015.07
The Trial of Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur at the Roman Inquisition on Malta, 1605

Alex Mallett [Invited]

Magic in Malta, 1605: Christian-Muslim Interaction in the Early-Modern Mediterranean (Mdina, Malta)

Presentation date： 2015.04

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Specific Research

Towards a Typology of Medieval Islamic Historiography

2020

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The past is always alive, and the way in which people understand and present their past tells us much about their society and culture. The aim of this project was to investigate how Muslims in the medieval period saw themselves through close examination of their historical writings. In particular, it was to do three main things. First was to form the basis of a KAKENHI grant application to investigate the phenomenon of typology (the deliberate drawing of parallels between ancient, religiously significant occurrences and the present being described) in medieval Islamic historiographical works and establish the methodological, theoretical, and source bases for such an application. Second, it was to obtain digital copies of the relevant manuscript material for this project, held in libraries in the UK, in order to have access to all relevant sources. Thirdly, it was to produce a journal article that will act as a pilot study, on how Saladin’s campaigns against the crusaders (1187-1193) are compared to Muhammad’s battles against the pagans of Mecca, submitted to a top journal.
The Islamic Historiography of the Crusades

2019

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This project's aim was to provide the bibliographical and methodological bases for a KAKENHI grant application for a project into how medieval Muslims wrote about the Crusades and non-Muslims in the period 1097-1291, something that builds on my many preliminary investigations published over the last ten years. This is extremely important because the period of the Crusades still provides a main basis for contemporary Muslim perceptions of and interactions with the ‘West’ and ‘Westerners’ (including Japan and the Japanese); thus, this project would help further cross-cultural understandings between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds today. Its main objectives were: 1) to build up a definitive bibliography of the relevant primary source material for the KAKENHI project via research into the manuscript holdings of libraries around the world; and 2) to develop the methodology to be used in that project and the related academic events (workshop, conference papers, etc.), through discussions with leading experts in the field.In order to produce a full bibliography for the project, I went to the UK and examined Arabic manuscript catalogues from libraries around the world in order to locate material that has not been published or utilized thus far; this will be added to my own already extensive knowledge of the published primary source material, developed ever since my MA studies fifteen years ago. The creation of the definitive primary source bibliography for the planned project will form the basis for my research over the next decade.
Responses to Globalisation in the Early-Modern Period: Vittorio Cassar and the Roman Inquisition on Malta

2018

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　The aim of the project was to use one case study, the life of Cassar, to help determine how people in the early-modern period reacted to and interacted with the manifestations of globalisation in this period, the first era of full globalisation. As such, I visited Malta in order to locate documents related to the Maltese architect Vittorio Cassar (d. c. 1610). These documents are housed in a number of different libraries in Malta, primarily the archives of the Roman Inquisition on Malta, the notarial archives, and the archives of the Knights Hospitaller in the National Library of Malta. Having spent six weeks in Malta, I have located and digitized a vast number of documents either directly or indirectly related to Vittorio Cassar. Over the next few months, I will study each of the documents in detail in order to attempt to fully understand how Cassar responded to the people, ideas, and objects that entered Malta in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Having understood Cassar’s reactions, I will compare them to contemporary reactions to globalisation in order to go some way to showing how historical research can help understand society today.

Syllabus

Special Lecture on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 4

Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences

2022 fall semester
Special Lecture on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 3

Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences

2022 spring semester
Inter-Religious Relations in Medieval Iberia 51

School of International Liberal Studies

2022 fall semester
A History of Christian-Muslim Relations, c. 600-1500 01

School of International Liberal Studies

2022 spring semester
The Crusades and the Muslim Responses, 1095-1291 01

School of International Liberal Studies

2022 spring semester
The Crusades and the Muslim Responses, 1291-1798 51

School of International Liberal Studies

2022 fall semester

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Teaching Experience

Medieval Islamic Historiography

Waseda University
2021.04

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Now
The Concept of Jihad

Waseda University
2021.04

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Now
Inter-religious Relations in Medieval Iberia

Waseda University
2021.04

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Now
The Crusades and the Muslim Responses, 1291-1798

Waseda University
2021.04

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Now
The Crusades and the Muslim Responses, 1095-1291

Waseda University
2021.04

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Now
A History of Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500

Waseda University
2021.04

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Now
The History of the Middle East and Europe, 600-1500

Waseda University
2019.04

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2021.01
Critical Approaches: Christian-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages

University of Exeter
2016.09

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2017.09
A History of the Modern Middle East

University of Exeter
2016.09

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2017.03
Islam and the Making of Medieval Europe

University of Exeter
2016.09

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2017.03
Understanding the Medieval and Early-Modern Worlds

University of Exeter
2014.09

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2017.03
The First Crusade

University of Exeter
2014.09

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2016.03
The Seventh Crusade

Royal Holloway, University of London
2012.09

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2013.03
The Heirs of Saladin: The Ayyubid Empire

Royal Holloway, University of London
2010.09

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2012.03
The Crusades

Royal Holloway, University of London
2010.09

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2012.03
Nomads, Heretics and Crusaders: The Medieval Islamic World

Royal Holloway, University of London
2010.09

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2011.03
Islamic History, 600-1500

University of Edinburgh
2006.09

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2008.03

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Committee Memberships

2019.08

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2021.07

The Medieval Review Board of Review Editors
2006.09

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2007.09

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Executive Committee

Social Activities

Muslim Women and the Crusades

University of Sheffield Women, Violence and Justice, 300-1300
2016.04

　

　
Magic through the Ages

University of Exeter Magic through the Ages
2015.10

　

　
The Muslim Slave Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta

Palazzo Santa Sophia, Mdina, Malta The Muslim Slave Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta
2015.04

　

　
Christian-Muslim Relations in the Inquisition - Malta 1605

University of Exeter
2014.10

Media Coverage

Islamic Studies Editor

Internet

DigitalOrientalist.com

2019.09
The Islamic World and Europe

Other

Theran Press Medieval Baghdad (textbook for schoolchildren)

2019.03
What Upset Everyone in 1605? Love!

Newspaper, magazine

Times of Malta

2015.03