This thesis examines some of the early Coptic perceptions of the Muslim conquest of Egypt that were mentioned in The Chronicle of John of Nikiu, written in the seventh century. It also compares it with the narratives in ...

With the explosion of new material emerging from a branch of archaeology that focuses specifically on Islamic periods and Islamic lands since the 1980s, it is most pertinent to consider its origin, its development, and its ...

Metalwork in the Islamic world encompasses a large geographical area from Spain to India, over an enormous time-period with the earliest dynasty, the Rashidun Caliphate in 632 CE to the present. Islamic metalwork includes ...

A number of recent publications have shown that a small amount of Egyptian glazed table wares were imported throughout Palestine from the early centuries of Islam onwards. One of the oft-forgotten and least classifiable ...

This thesis deals with the trans-Saharan commercial links between the Maghreb and BilÄ d al-SÅ«dÄ n from the 1st till 5th century AH, and the role the IbÄ á¸ Ä« community played in establishing these links. IbÄ á¸ Ä« ...

This academic thesis deals with the issue of methodology as used by MuṣṭafÄ Ê¿Abdel-RÄ ziq (1885 - 1947). It is an issue that represents the essence of his academic philosophical thought. MuṣṭafÄ Ê¿Abdel-RÄ ziq ...

This study derives the legal methodology of the modern Salafi movement in Egypt. The first two sections develop context, pondering global Salafism as well as the effects of the Egyptian political, economic, and cultural ...

The subject of this thesis is the Burji Mamluk mosque of Qijmas al-Ishaqi built near the end of the fifteenth century during the reign of sultan Qaytbay. It was founded at a time when the city of Cairo had already become ...

Mamluk Architecture was renowned for its grandeur. It had characteristic features that distinguished it from other styles and added to its unquestioned beauty. Cairo saw a revival of the Mamluk style in the late nineteenth ...

This thesis analyzes Abu Jaâ far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabariâ s chronicle (d. 923) History of Prophets and Kings using a gender perspective. It focuses on al-Tabariâ s representation of women during the Madina period, ...