Doris Behrens‐Abouseif
Biographic Data
| ID | 5403145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doris Behrens‐Abouseif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doris |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrens‐Abouseif |
| SIGNATURE | ABOUSEIF D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Owning Books and Preserving Documents in Medieval Jerusalem, written by Said Aljoumani and Konrad Hirschler
Remarks by the Recipient of the 2021 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
A Mamluk Pen Box Connected to the Thousand and One Nights and the Historian Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir
The article discusses a remarkable Mamluk pen box in the Louvre, focusing on its inscriptions, which consist of three poems: one by the historian Muhyi ’l-Din Ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir, another by his son Taj al-Din, and a third, anonymous poem cited in a tale of The 1001 Nights. The article tries to trace the history of the pen box and reconstruct its original layout
Orientalism and the Artisanal Revival in 19th- and 20th-Century Egypt
The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517): Scribes, Libraries and Market
This book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting. It documents the significance of private collections and their interaction with institutional libraries and the role of charitable endowments (waqf ) …
Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate: Gifts and Material Culture in the Medieval Islamic World
Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy. In firm control of the medieval spice trade as well as the holy sites of Christianity and Islam, the Sultanate’s capital at Cairo became a diplomatic crossroads in the medieval world and the seat of a new Islamic caliphate. Already victorious over both the Crusaders and the Mongols, their military success and lavish religious patronage were not enough to ensure the dynasty's p…
The Complex of Sultan Mahmud I in Cairo
Craftsmen, upstarts and Sufis in the late Mamluk period
This article explores the careers of craftsmen and other commoners, who succeeded in joining the bureaucratic system and occupying high positions in the Mamluk administrative establishment, eventually acquiring great power and even political authority. At the same time Sufi shaykhs, also men of common origin and beneficiaries of Mamluk philanthropy, emerged as mighty and authoritative figures, venerated equally by the aristocracy and the populace…
The Jalayirid Connection in Mamluk Metalware
The Jalayirid Connection in Mamluk Metalware
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt
The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court
Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction
Known as the Mother of the World, Cairo has one of the highest concentrations of Islamic architectural treasures in the world. This introduction to the subject begins with an analysis of the Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest in 641 through to the Ottoman Period and the reign of Muhammad Ali at the beginning of the 19th century. From that point, the reader is given a guided tour of the evolution of Cairo's Islamic architecture and an …
The Lion-Gazelle Mosaic at Khirbat Al-Mafjar
The bath hall at Khirbat al-Mafjar, one of the most remarkable buildings dating from the Umayyad period, is well known to historians of Islamic art through the excavation and reconstruction of its layout by Robert Hamilton.' Hamilton has subsequently added a new dimension to the interpretation of this building by publishing a biography of its probable founder, the caliph Walid II, and translating excerpts of the poetry composed by this fascinatin…
The Lion-Gazelle Mosaic at Khirbat al-Mafjar
The bath hall at Khirbat al-Mafjar, one of the most remarkable buildings dating from the Umayyad period, is well known to historians of Islamic art through the excavation and reconstruction of its layout by Robert Hamilton.' Hamilton has subsequently added a new dimension to the interpretation of this building by publishing a biography of its probable founder, the caliph Walid II, and translating excerpts of the poetry composed by this fascinatin…
ANDRÉ Raymond, Le Caire des Janissaires: L'apogée de la ville ottomane sous ʿAbd al-Rahmân Katkhuda. Paris: CNRS editions. 1995 FF 130
Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf, and Architecture in Cairo (16th and 17th Centuries)
Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries)
Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule deals with the impact of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt on its political, religious and social institutions, their transition from the Mamluk to the Ottoman regime and further development up to the 17th century. The relationship between the Ottoman ruling establishment, the local religious groups and the military aristocracy is discussed in the first part of the volume. Waqf documents are a major source for this …
Qusta Ibn Luqa's Medical Regime for the Pilgrims to Mecca: The Risala fi tadbir safar al-hajj . Qusta Ibn Luqa, Gerrit Bos
Eine Stadtgeschichte Alexandrias von 564/1169 bis in die Mitte des 9./15. Jahrhunderts: Verwaltung und innerstädtische Organisationsreformen
The Facade of the Aqmar Mosque in the Context of Fatimid Ceremonial
Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. Vol. III
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An Unlisted Monument of the Fifteenth Century: the Dome of Zāwiyat al-Damirdāš Followed by: The Zāwiya in Cairo.: Avec 3 Planches
Behrens-Abouseif Doris,Fernandes Leonor. An Unlisted Monument of the Fifteenth Century: the Dome of Zāwiyat al-Damirdāš Followed by: The Zāwiya in Cairo.. In: Annales islamologiques 18, 1982. pp. 105-121.
The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli, by Hayat Salam-Liebich. 250 pages, 193 plans and photos, bibliography, index. The Aga Khan Program for Architecture at Harvard University and MIT, Cambr…
The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli, by Hayat Salam-Liebich. 250 pages, 193 plans and photos, bibliography, index. The Aga Khan Program for Architecture at Harvard University and MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 1983. - Volume 19 Issue 1
An Urban History of Būlāq in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods
The Takiyyat Ibrahim Al-Kulshani in Cairo
The Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Kulshani in Cairo
The Citadel of Cairo: Stage for Mamluk Ceremonial.
Behrens-Abouseif Doris. The Citadel of Cairo: Stage for Mamluk Ceremonial.. In: Annales islamologiques 24, 1989. pp. 25-79.
Fath Allah and Abu Zakariyya: Physicians under the Mamluks
Islamic Architecture in Cairo, an Introduction, Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture, Supplements to Muqarnas, Volume III
The Façade of the Aqmar Mosque in the Context of Fatimid Ceremonial
The Facade of the Aqmar Mosque in the Context of Fatimid Ceremonial
Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. Vol. III
Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries)
Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule deals with the impact of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt on its political, religious and social institutions, their transition from the Mamluk to the Ottoman regime and further development up to the 17th century. The relationship between the Ottoman ruling establishment, the local religious groups and the military aristocracy is discussed in the first part of the volume. Waqf documents are a major source for this …
Qusta Ibn Luqa's Medical Regime for the Pilgrims to Mecca: The Risala fi tadbir safar al-hajj . Qusta Ibn Luqa, Gerrit Bos
Eine Stadtgeschichte Alexandrias von 564/1169 bis in die Mitte des 9./15. Jahrhunderts: Verwaltung und innerstädtische Organisationsreformen
Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf, and Architecture in Cairo (16th and 17th Centuries)
The Lion-Gazelle Mosaic at Khirbat Al-Mafjar
The bath hall at Khirbat al-Mafjar, one of the most remarkable buildings dating from the Umayyad period, is well known to historians of Islamic art through the excavation and reconstruction of its layout by Robert Hamilton.' Hamilton has subsequently added a new dimension to the interpretation of this building by publishing a biography of its probable founder, the caliph Walid II, and translating excerpts of the poetry composed by this fascinatin…
The Lion-Gazelle Mosaic at Khirbat al-Mafjar
The bath hall at Khirbat al-Mafjar, one of the most remarkable buildings dating from the Umayyad period, is well known to historians of Islamic art through the excavation and reconstruction of its layout by Robert Hamilton.' Hamilton has subsequently added a new dimension to the interpretation of this building by publishing a biography of its probable founder, the caliph Walid II, and translating excerpts of the poetry composed by this fascinatin…
ANDRÉ Raymond, Le Caire des Janissaires: L'apogée de la ville ottomane sous ʿAbd al-Rahmân Katkhuda. Paris: CNRS editions. 1995 FF 130
Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction
Known as the Mother of the World, Cairo has one of the highest concentrations of Islamic architectural treasures in the world. This introduction to the subject begins with an analysis of the Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest in 641 through to the Ottoman Period and the reign of Muhammad Ali at the beginning of the 19th century. From that point, the reader is given a guided tour of the evolution of Cairo's Islamic architecture and an …
European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court
The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt
The Jalayirid Connection in Mamluk Metalware
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