Le savant et son époque à travers sa correspondance Seeger A. Bonebakker (1923-2005) et quelques notes sur Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī (696-764/1297-1363)

This article proposes a survey of two great scholars’ in Arabic literature correspondences: a European of the 20th century, Seeger Adrianus Bonebakker, who is of special interest for us because he bequeathed all of his great library, personal notes and correspondence to Università Ca’ Foscari, and a subject of study of the former, Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī, great littérateur and scholar of the first century of the Mamluk period. Letters sent and received are preserved in both cases and are primary sources on their network, but also on their personal life, personality and methodology

The Byzantine legacy and Ottoman forms

Donated by Klaus Kreise

Stanford J Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. volume I: Empire of the Gazis :the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808, cambridge University Press 1976

Donated by Klaus Kreise

Byzantium: The Social Basis of Decline in the Eleventh Century

Of the various problems that undermined Byzantine strength in the 11th century, the two most serious were the conflict between the landed military aristocracy and the civil administration, and the religious and ethnic conflicts of the diverse national groups. <!--EndFragment--

Byzantine Attitudes toward Islam during the Late Middle Ages

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