Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta

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Vol. 33 (2025)
Published January 13, 2025

MEM Awards

Jürgen Paul
v-ix
Remarks by the Recipient of the 2024 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists (13 December 2024)
November 14, 2025
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Research Articles

Alfred Hiatt
1-29
Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima and the Maps of al-Idrīsī
January 13, 2025
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Tim Greenwood, Alasdair Grant, Kieran Hagan, Leone Pecorini Goodall, Lewis Read
30-106
A Neglected Armenian Source of the Late Umayyad Era
The Martyrdom of Vahan of Gołt‘n
January 15, 2025
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Georg Leube
107-138
Mkrtičʻ Nałaš: An Armenian Bishop as Pillar of the Aqquyunlu State?
Synchronisms in the Armenian and Aqquyunlu History of Diyarbakır, 1430–1450 CE
January 21, 2025
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Arya Tabibzadeh
139-148
'Masʾalatun or Mas'ʾalatun? That Is the Question!
The Implications of Traditional Persian Metrics for Classical Arabic Stress
July 10, 2025
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Jonny Lawrence
149-180
Emotional Manipulation, Coercion, and Precarity in the Tales of Jamīl and Buthayna
July 17, 2025
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Hannah Barker
181-216
The Tatars of the Sūdān
Race, Place, and Power in Ibn Saʿīd’s Geography
September 27, 2025
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Matthew Melvin-Koushki
217-266
Selenocentrism and Heliocentrism in Early Modern Persianate Imperial Cultures: ʿAlī versus Jesus, with Hermes Presiding
A Harranian Essay in Astro-Decoloniality
October 29, 2025
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Thematic Dossier

Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
267-272
Indian Ocean Histories
Connections and Reflections
November 14, 2025
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Guangtian Ha
273-307
White Camphor and Peppercorn Hair
Blackness in Medieval Arabo-Asia
November 14, 2025
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Mustafa Banister
308-347
Across Sea and Ocean
Transmitting and Receiving Caliphal Sovereignty Claims between the Late Medieval Cairo Sultanate and the Sultanates of India
November 14, 2025
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Sohaib Baig
348-382
The “Lamp of Hind” in Cairo
How an Indian Jurist Became the Chief Hanafi Judge of the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century
November 14, 2025
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Maria Gajewska
383-411
What’s in a World?
The “Indian Ocean World” as a Research Framework
November 14, 2025
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Roundtable

Shireen Hamza
412-413
A Sea of Sorcery
Roundtable on The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
November 14, 2025
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Liana Saif
414-419
Witches
November 14, 2025
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Shireen Hamza
425-430
Transformation
November 14, 2025
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Rebecca Hankins
431-435
Faith, Freedom, and Favors
November 14, 2025
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Mahmood Kooria
436-439
Piracy
November 14, 2025
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KD Thompson
440-442
The Swahili Coast
November 14, 2025
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Fahad Ahmad Bishara
443-446
Voyage Stories
The Natural and Supernatural on the Deck of a Dhow
November 14, 2025
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Editions & Translations

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Jāzim, Daniel Martin Varisco
447-481
Kitāb al-Safar
A Book on the Management of Travel by a Yemeni Rasulid Sultan
November 14, 2025
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Notes and Brief Communications

Christopher Melchert
482-487
The Relative Lenience or Strictness of the Sunni Schools of Law
November 14, 2025
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Conference Reports

Jonny Lawrence
515-521
Serious Laughter
Beyond the Jest-Earnest Binary in Classical Arabic Literature
November 14, 2025
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