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
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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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- 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