Hussein Fancy
Biographic Data
| ID | 225160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hussein Fancy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hussein |
| FAMILY NAME | Fancy |
| SIGNATURE | FANCY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4363-8792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Was Europe Muslim? And Other Embarrassing Questions
The Tides of Global History
It seems the tide that was going out is already coming back in.During my time in graduate school, historians were trading in truffles for parachutes, which is to say, trading an interest in the smallest scale for the largest. 1 Microhistories were giving way to global histories that sought to make sense of a globalized world.Nevertheless, just as we have soured on globalism, so too global history.Global histories readily became, to borrow a line …
The Aragonese Almohads, the Almohad Aragonese
On Transnational and International History
In 2006, the American Historical Review published “AHR Conversation: On Transnational History,” and it remains to date among the journal’s most downloaded articles.1 The conversation featured six established historians discussing the so-called transnational turn in the discipline, offering reflections on both the many possibilities and the challenges of researching and writing history that moved across traditional geographic divisions. Nearly two…
Fictionalities in medieval Arabic texts: A roundtable
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (Chicago, 2021)
Basit Kareem Iqbal and Candace B. LukasikCharles Hirschkind begins his new book, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, by stating his argument simply: ‘medieval Muslim Iberia d
The new convivencia ”
This essay offers an introduction to the recent and impassioned debates between two Spanish Arabists, Emilio González Ferrín and Alejandro García Sanjuán, about the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711. While offering an overview of the controversy between them and representing their respective positions, it also calls attention to the methodological and philosophical underpinnings of the debate, underpinnings that echo earlier, trenc…
Of Sovereigns, Sacred Kings, and Polemics
In its emphasis on ritual and sacred kingship, Azfar Moin's The Millennial Sovereign bears the imprint of anthropological theory, but Moin addresses this inheritance only obliquely. This essay seeks to draw out that tradition and to place theories of sovereignty and sacred kingship in their intellectual and historical context. Ultimately, it questions the value of these theories to the study of political authority
The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon
Grounded in Romance, Latin, and Arabic archival sources, this article traces the journey of the last Almohad princes, the sons of the caliph Abū Dabbūs, from North Africa into the realms of the Crown of Aragon and back to North Africa again. It aims not only to repair two halves of a curious and little known history but also argues that the disciplinary boundaries that have divided the study of Iberia and North Africa have had enduring consequenc…
Theologies of Violence: The Recruitment of Muslim Soldiers by The Crown of Aragon
The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon
Grounded in Romance, Latin, and Arabic archival sources, this article traces the journey of the last Almohad princes, the sons of the caliph Abū Dabbūs, from North Africa into the realms of the Crown of Aragon and back to North Africa again. It aims not only to repair two halves of a curious and little known history but also argues that the disciplinary boundaries that have divided the study of Iberia and North Africa have had enduring consequenc…
The new convivencia ”
This essay offers an introduction to the recent and impassioned debates between two Spanish Arabists, Emilio González Ferrín and Alejandro García Sanjuán, about the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711. While offering an overview of the controversy between them and representing their respective positions, it also calls attention to the methodological and philosophical underpinnings of the debate, underpinnings that echo earlier, trenc…
Theologies of Violence: The Recruitment of Muslim Soldiers by The Crown of Aragon
The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon
Grounded in Romance, Latin, and Arabic archival sources, this article traces the journey of the last Almohad princes, the sons of the caliph Abū Dabbūs, from North Africa into the realms of the Crown of Aragon and back to North Africa again. It aims not only to repair two halves of a curious and little known history but also argues that the disciplinary boundaries that have divided the study of Iberia and North Africa have had enduring consequenc…
Theologies of Violence: The Recruitment of Muslim Soldiers by The Crown of Aragon
Of Sovereigns, Sacred Kings, and Polemics
In its emphasis on ritual and sacred kingship, Azfar Moin's The Millennial Sovereign bears the imprint of anthropological theory, but Moin addresses this inheritance only obliquely. This essay seeks to draw out that tradition and to place theories of sovereignty and sacred kingship in their intellectual and historical context. Ultimately, it questions the value of these theories to the study of political authority
The new convivencia ”
This essay offers an introduction to the recent and impassioned debates between two Spanish Arabists, Emilio González Ferrín and Alejandro García Sanjuán, about the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711. While offering an overview of the controversy between them and representing their respective positions, it also calls attention to the methodological and philosophical underpinnings of the debate, underpinnings that echo earlier, trenc…
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (Chicago, 2021)
Basit Kareem Iqbal and Candace B. LukasikCharles Hirschkind begins his new book, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, by stating his argument simply: ‘medieval Muslim Iberia d
Fictionalities in medieval Arabic texts: A roundtable
The Aragonese Almohads, the Almohad Aragonese
On Transnational and International History
In 2006, the American Historical Review published “AHR Conversation: On Transnational History,” and it remains to date among the journal’s most downloaded articles.1 The conversation featured six established historians discussing the so-called transnational turn in the discipline, offering reflections on both the many possibilities and the challenges of researching and writing history that moved across traditional geographic divisions. Nearly two…
The Tides of Global History
It seems the tide that was going out is already coming back in.During my time in graduate school, historians were trading in truffles for parachutes, which is to say, trading an interest in the smallest scale for the largest. 1 Microhistories were giving way to global histories that sought to make sense of a globalized world.Nevertheless, just as we have soured on globalism, so too global history.Global histories readily became, to borrow a line …
Was Europe Muslim? And Other Embarrassing Questions
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