IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 209: The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades: New Approaches, New Sources, II

Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Organisers:	Paul M. Cobb, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania Konrad Hirschler, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London Suleiman A. Mourad, Department of Religion, Smith College, Massachusetts
Moderator/Chair:	Jonathan Phillips, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paper 209-a	The Nile Delta as a Geostrategic Space: Crusaders and Fortifications in Egypt, 1118-1250 (Language: English) Stephane Pradines, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London Index terms: Crusades, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Military History
Paper 209-b	The Treaties Concluded between Venice, Genoa, and the Sultans of Egypt during the 13th Century (Language: English) Pierre Moukarzel, Lebanese University, Beirut Index terms: Crusades, Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies
Paper 209-c	Crusade as Blockade: The Effect of Papal Bans on the Mamluk Slave Trade (Language: English) Hannah Barker, Department of History, Columbia University Index terms: Crusades, Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies
Abstract	The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades studies the impact of the crusades on the Islamic World. The central focus of the session is on the direct or indirect response to the crusades and to the prolonged settlement of Latin Europeans in the Middle East and North Africa between the 11th and 15th centuries. The session includes topics such as Muslim understandings of the crusades and the challenge they posed, intellectual and cultural transformations within the world of Islam generated as a response to the crusades and everyday relations between the Franks and indigenous populations.