Allen Fromherz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Fromherz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Fromherz |
| SIGNATURE | FROMHERZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Failing into ‘Aimperial’ Space
The Gulf is an “aimperial” space at the “center of the world.” It is neither anti-imperial, it benefits from trade linking empires, nor on the frontier, its space is well known. Instead, the peoples of the Gulf have avoided outright control by any single empire by linking them and adapting to the harsh geographical realities of deserts, marshes and mountains. Ruled by merchant princes and fueled by customs dues on trade, Gulf peoples and Gulf eco…
Dominque Valérian. Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval
Dominique Valérian ranks among most important historians of the medieval economic history of the Mediterranean. He has changed conventional views on the role of the Maghrib in the medieval history of the Middle Sea. Many theoretical works and accounts by the Mediterranean school of historians have pushed for more data, more references to the Maghrib to provide a more complete picture of the history of the western Mediterranean as a social, econom…
Ali Humayun Akhtar. Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs
Ali Humayun Akhtar’s Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad is an ambitious intellectual history of Islamic philosophy, mysticism, and the politics of authority that spans the “golden ages” of Islam. In his conclusion, Akhtar states that he aims to show how different groups during these different golden ages answered the following question: “What constituted sound models of political leadership …
The Economics of Ascetic Encounter
I would argue that “Mediterranean religion” is a functional category for a host of reasons. The common Abrahamic root of the three main faiths in medieval Mediterranean society is obvious. When compared to other bodies of water in Eurasia, such as the Indian Ocean, or even the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean is not as diverse as it is often portrayed. In few other Eurasian seas has one category of faith (Abrahamic monotheism) dominated for so man…
Gateways to the World
Ibn Khaldūn, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Their Milieu
Despite the calamities of the fourteenth century, the Black Death, the disintegration of political power, and the destructive rivalry between North African and Andalusī rulers, the correspondence of two scholars and ministers, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Ibn Khaldūn, reveals a network of intellectual contacts maintained above the fray. As Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s famous essay, the “Art of Being a Minister,” made clear, the intelligentsia saw itself as both within a…
Between S prings
Although many in N orth A frica and the M iddle E ast are dissatisfied with it, the phrase “ A rab” S pring, used label to describe extraordinary popular uprisings of the past few years, seems to have staying power. What the name implies is an ethnically “ A rab” uprising. The M iddle E ast and N orth A frica, however, are far from ethnic monoliths. A substantial ethnic and linguistic minority, the B erbers, who form large portions of the populat…
Ramzi Rouighi. The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate
Journal Article Ramzi Rouighi. The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200–1400. Get access Ramzi Rouighi. The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200–1400. (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011. Pp. 238. $55.00. Allen Fromherz Allen Fromherz Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American…
Ibn KhaldunLife and Times
North Africa and the Twelfth-century Renaissance
This article explains the impact of the rise of the Berber, Islamic Almohad Empire on Mediterranean history. The influence of the Almohads on the twelfth-century European Renaissance and the connections and interactions between the Almohads of North Africa and centres of power in Europe has been overlooked by scholars. While scholars of the medieval period have focused on the interactions between Europe and the East, including the great Islamic c…
North Africa and the Twelfth-century Renaissance
This article explains the impact of the rise of the Berber, Islamic Almohad Empire on Mediterranean history. The influence of the Almohads on the twelfth-century European Renaissance and the connections and interactions between the Almohads of North Africa and centres of power in Europe has been overlooked by scholars. While scholars of the medieval period have focused on the interactions between Europe and the East, including the great Islamic c…
Between S prings
Although many in N orth A frica and the M iddle E ast are dissatisfied with it, the phrase “ A rab” S pring, used label to describe extraordinary popular uprisings of the past few years, seems to have staying power. What the name implies is an ethnically “ A rab” uprising. The M iddle E ast and N orth A frica, however, are far from ethnic monoliths. A substantial ethnic and linguistic minority, the B erbers, who form large portions of the populat…
Ibn Khaldūn, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Their Milieu
Despite the calamities of the fourteenth century, the Black Death, the disintegration of political power, and the destructive rivalry between North African and Andalusī rulers, the correspondence of two scholars and ministers, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Ibn Khaldūn, reveals a network of intellectual contacts maintained above the fray. As Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s famous essay, the “Art of Being a Minister,” made clear, the intelligentsia saw itself as both within a…
North Africa and the Twelfth-century Renaissance
This article explains the impact of the rise of the Berber, Islamic Almohad Empire on Mediterranean history. The influence of the Almohads on the twelfth-century European Renaissance and the connections and interactions between the Almohads of North Africa and centres of power in Europe has been overlooked by scholars. While scholars of the medieval period have focused on the interactions between Europe and the East, including the great Islamic c…
Ibn KhaldunLife and Times
Ramzi Rouighi. The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate
Journal Article Ramzi Rouighi. The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200–1400. Get access Ramzi Rouighi. The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate: Ifriqiya and Its Andalusis, 1200–1400. (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2011. Pp. 238. $55.00. Allen Fromherz Allen Fromherz Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American…
Ibn Khaldūn, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Their Milieu
Despite the calamities of the fourteenth century, the Black Death, the disintegration of political power, and the destructive rivalry between North African and Andalusī rulers, the correspondence of two scholars and ministers, Ibn al-Khaṭīb and Ibn Khaldūn, reveals a network of intellectual contacts maintained above the fray. As Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s famous essay, the “Art of Being a Minister,” made clear, the intelligentsia saw itself as both within a…
Between S prings
Although many in N orth A frica and the M iddle E ast are dissatisfied with it, the phrase “ A rab” S pring, used label to describe extraordinary popular uprisings of the past few years, seems to have staying power. What the name implies is an ethnically “ A rab” uprising. The M iddle E ast and N orth A frica, however, are far from ethnic monoliths. A substantial ethnic and linguistic minority, the B erbers, who form large portions of the populat…
The Economics of Ascetic Encounter
I would argue that “Mediterranean religion” is a functional category for a host of reasons. The common Abrahamic root of the three main faiths in medieval Mediterranean society is obvious. When compared to other bodies of water in Eurasia, such as the Indian Ocean, or even the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean is not as diverse as it is often portrayed. In few other Eurasian seas has one category of faith (Abrahamic monotheism) dominated for so man…
Gateways to the World
Ali Humayun Akhtar. Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs
Ali Humayun Akhtar’s Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad is an ambitious intellectual history of Islamic philosophy, mysticism, and the politics of authority that spans the “golden ages” of Islam. In his conclusion, Akhtar states that he aims to show how different groups during these different golden ages answered the following question: “What constituted sound models of political leadership …
Dominque Valérian. Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval
Dominique Valérian ranks among most important historians of the medieval economic history of the Mediterranean. He has changed conventional views on the role of the Maghrib in the medieval history of the Middle Sea. Many theoretical works and accounts by the Mediterranean school of historians have pushed for more data, more references to the Maghrib to provide a more complete picture of the history of the western Mediterranean as a social, econom…
Failing into ‘Aimperial’ Space
The Gulf is an “aimperial” space at the “center of the world.” It is neither anti-imperial, it benefits from trade linking empires, nor on the frontier, its space is well known. Instead, the peoples of the Gulf have avoided outright control by any single empire by linking them and adapting to the harsh geographical realities of deserts, marshes and mountains. Ruled by merchant princes and fueled by customs dues on trade, Gulf peoples and Gulf eco…
History (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Islam (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Classics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works)