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
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)
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