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 (15):
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. Responses to Genocide: The Muslim Response to the Crusades. A Cultural History of Genocide. Volume 2: The Middle Ages (edited volume). 2021. 123-143
Alex Mallett, Johannes den Heijer. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church. Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (edited volume). 2020
Alex Mallett. Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. 2017. 122. 5. 1575-1576
Alex Mallett. From Martyr to Murderer: Representations of the Assassins in Twelft- and Thirteenth-Century Europe. SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES. 2016. 91. 2. 545-547
Alex Mallett. The Race for Paradise. An Islamic History of the Crusades. BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES-UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 2015. 78. 386-387
Alex Mallett. Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the Fada'il-i Balkh. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. 2015. 120. 3. 1152-1152
Alex Mallett. Conquering and governing Islamic Sicily in the XI and XII centuries. AL-MASAQ-ISLAM AND THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN. 2014. 26. 3. 330-331
Imad al-Din al-Isfahani's Account of the Battle of Hattin: Typology as a Strategy of Legitimisation in Medieval Islamic Narratives
(Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (Rethymnon, Crete) 2022)
Deconstructing the Arabic Sources for the Fifth Crusade
(Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies (Marburg, Germany) 2022)
Christians, Turks, and the First Crusade
(Conference of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies (Oberlin University) 2020)
Christians, Turks, and the First Crusade
(Late Antique and Byzantine Studies series (Oxford University) 2020)
The Reception of Ideas in the Early-Modern Globalised World: Vittorio Cassar and the Roman Inquisition on Malta
(Migration and Cultural Spaces (Nanjing University) 2019)
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
2012/10 - 2013/05 Royal Holloway, University of London History Department Lecturer
2012/03 - 2012/06 Universite de Nantes Maison des sciences de l'hommes Research Fellow
2010/01 - 2011/12 Royal Holloway, University of London History Department Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
2009/01 - 2009/12 University of Birmingham Theology and Religion Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Committee career (2):
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