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Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Ghent University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Historiography
Mamluk Studies
Islamic Law
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Syria
Specialties
Literary Aspects Of Islamic Historiography
Performance Of Social Status
Languages
Dutch (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
German (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2019 | History | Ghent University
MA | 2013 | Languages and Culture | Ghent University
MA | 2011 | History | Ghent University
Abstracts
Narrating sultanship: the writing of sultanic biography as performance of social status Letters “Lacking a Signature” Full of the “Clattering of the Persians”: A Narratological and Material Analysis of Early Ilkhanid-Mamluk Diplomacy