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Mallett Alex

Mallett Alex
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate Professor
Research field  (2): History - Asia/Africa ,  History - Europe/America
Research keywords  (7): Islamic History ,  Medieval History ,  Subaltern Muslims ,  Arabic Historiography ,  Early-Modern Malta ,  Crusades ,  Christian-Muslim Relations
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (5):
  • 2019 - 2019 Migrations: Movement of People, Goods and Ideas
  • 2018 - 2019 Responses to Globalisation in the Early-Modern Period: Vittorio Cassar and the Roman Inquisition on Malta
  • 2014 - 2017 Magic in Malta, 1605. The Moorish Slave Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta
  • 2010 - 2011 Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097-1291
  • 2007 - 2008 Cross-Cultural Perceptions in Chronicles of the Crusades
Papers (16):
  • Alexander Mallett. Reconstructing Early Modern Muslim Networks through the Application of Digital Humanities Tools: The Muslim Slave Community in Early Modern Malta. Connecting through Islam 8: Connectivity Revealed by Digital Humanities (edited volume), 95-129. 2025
  • Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider. The Trial of Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur: Text, Translation, and Commentary. The Moorish Slave Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta (edited volume). 2022. 24-304
  • Alex Mallett. Problematising the Islamic Evidence for the Crusades: The Frankish Red Sea Raid of 1183. Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning: Essays in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand (edited volume). 2022. 66-73
  • Alex Mallett. Al-ʿAẓīmī’s Taʾrīkh for the Crusading Period: The Years 489-508/1095-1115. Crusades. 2021. 19
  • Alex Mallett. Consequences: The Muslim Response to the Crusades. A Cultural History of Genocide. Volume 2: The Middle Ages (edited volume). 2021. 123-143
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Books (10):
  • Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades
    Brill 2024 ISBN:9789004677586
  • Christian-Muslim relations during the Crusades
    ARC Humanities Press 2023 ISBN:9781641890199
  • Magic in Malta, 1605. The Moorish Slave Sellem b. al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition on Malta
    Brill 2022
  • Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography
    Brepols 2021
  • Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097-1291
    Ashgate 2014
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Lectures and oral presentations  (17):
  • Al-Ayni’s Chronicle as a Source for the First Crusade
    (25 Years After Hillenbrand. New Approaches to Sources, Translation and Perspectives (University of Groningen) 2024)
  • The Establishment and Maintenance of Burid Power in Damascus during the Reign of Tughtegin (1104-1128)
    (International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds) 2024)
  • The Use and Context of the Ideology of Jihad in Ibn al-Qalanisi’s Chronicle of Damascus
    (Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (Edinburgh University) 2024)
  • Typology as a Strategy of Legitimisation in Medieval Islamic Narratives
    (Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Medieval and Early Modern Society (University of Canterbury) 2024)
  • The Establishment and Maintenance of Burid Power in Damascus during the Reign of Tughtegin (1104-1128)
    (First Conference of the Noblesse Oblige? Research Network (University of Oxford) 2023)
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Education (3):
  • 2005 - 2009 University of Edinburgh Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies PhD
  • 2002 - 2004 University College London History Department MA Medieval Studies
  • 1999 - 2002 University College London History Department BA History
Work history (9):
  • 2021/04 - 現在 Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies Associate Professor
  • 2018/06 - 2021/03 Waseda University Waseda Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor (without tenure)
  • 2017/09 - 2018/05 Leiden University Leiden Institute for Area Studies Research Fellow in Digital Asia
  • 2014/07 - 2017/08 University of Exeter Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Research Fellow
  • 2013/06 - 2014/06 Cengage Learning Digital Product Editor
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Committee career (3):
  • 2019/09 - 2021/08 DigitalOrientalist.com Editorial Board
  • 2019/08 - 2021/07 The Medieval Review Board of Review Editors
  • 2006/09 - 2007/09 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Executive Committee
Association Membership(s) (5):
Japan Society for Near Eastern Studies ,  Japan Association for Middle East Studies ,  Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East ,  Higher Education Academy (UK) ,  Royal Asiatic Society
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