Books

An overview of books by members of the School of Abbasid Studies.
Eugénie Rébillard
2024
Imposer l’ordre. La police dans les villes et les campagnes de l’Iraq abbasside (132-334/750-945)
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Hayrettin Yücesoy
2023
Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought
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Letizia Osti
2022
History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
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D.G. Tor, ed.
2017
The ʿAbbāsid and Carolingian Empires: Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation. Islamic History and Civilization Series.
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Emily Selove
2016
Hikāyat Abī al-Qāsim: A Literary Banquet
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Nadia Maria El Cheikh
2015
Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity
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John A. Nawas
2015
Al-Maʾmūn, the Inquisition, and the Quest for Caliphal Authority
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Latest news

Next conference

The Seventeenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies will take place at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, July 2026. More details will be posted in due course.

Scopus acknowledgement

The Journal of Abbasid Studies has been accepted for Scopus. The Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has reviewed the journal’s application and approved it for coverage. The editors are pleased with the Scopus acknowledgement and hope that the journal’s inclusion in the Scopus database will attract even more excellent work for publication in the Journal of Abbasid Studies.

New publications

Imposer l’ordre. La police dans les villes et les campagnes de l’Iraq abbasside (132-334/750-945)
Eugénie Rébillard

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