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Authored Books
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2022) Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture)
Edited Book or Journal Volume
El-Merheb, Mohamad and Berriah, Mehdi, eds. (2021) Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750) New Concepts and Approaches. Leiden: Brill. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 157)
Book Chapters
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2021) 'Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa.' In: El-Merheb, Mohamad and Berriah, Mehdi, (eds.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches. Leiden: Brill, pp. 207-230. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 157)
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2019) ''There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses.' In: Kellermann, Karina, Plassmann, Alheydis and Schwermann, Christian, (eds.), Criticising the Ruler in Pre-Modern Societies: Possibilities, Chances, and Methods. Göttingen: V and R unipress, pp. 349-376. (Macht und Herrschaft, Band 6)
Journal Article
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2024) 'Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part II.' Crusades. (Forthcoming)
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2023) 'Louis IX and the transition from Ayyubid to Mamluk sultanate – Part I.' Crusades, 22 (2). pp. 215-235.
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2016) 'Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection.' Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 28 (3). pp. 282-301.
Book Reviews
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2024) 'Review of: James Wilson, Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham, 1050–1128.' English Historical Review, 139 (600). pp. 1264-1266.
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2023) 'Review of: Carl F. Petry: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 9781108456999.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 86 (2). pp. 367-369.
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2020) 'Review of: Carole Hillenbrand, ed., Syria in Crusader Times: Conflict and Co-Existence, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2019, 400 pp., 26 illustrations, ISBN 9781474429702.' Der Islam, 97 (2). pp. 597-600.
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2019) 'Review of: Sohaira Z.M. Siddiqui: Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) xiii, 312 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. ISBN 978 1 10849678 0.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 82 (3). pp. 533-535.
Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2024) Contrasting Crusader Kings: Frederick II vs. Louis IX in Arabic Accounts. Medievalists.net [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2024) Uit de kruistochttijd zijn diplomatieke lessen te trekken. Historisch Nieuwsblad [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]
Theses
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2019) Islamic Political Thought: Competing Conceptions of the Rule of Law in the Middle Period. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032307
Other
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2021) 'Ibn Jamāʿa and family.' Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three . Leiden: Brill.
El-Merheb, Mohamad (2020) 'Louis IX.' Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three . Leiden: Brill.