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Malika Dekkiche
University of Antwerp
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
154 Jos Verdegemstraat
9040 Ghent
Belgium
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Foreign Relations
13th-18th Centuries
Mamluk Studies
Iranian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Egypt
All Middle East
Central Asia
Iran
Indian Ocean Region
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Mamluks-Timurids-Turkmen Mediterranean History
Diplomacy
Religious Patronage
Languages
French (native)
English (advanced)
Arabic (fluent)
German (intermediate)
Persian (elementary)
Dutch (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2011 | Oriental Languages and Literature | University of Liège
MA | 2007 | Oriental Languages and Literature | University of Liège
Abstracts
When the Pen Rules: Diplomatic Exchanges between the Mamluks and the Timurids in the Fifteenth Century Between the Lines: the Diplomatic Letter and the Projection of Empire “A world of kings and realms”: Mamluk Diplomacy and the Spatial Turn. “And On That Day an Envoy Reached Us From…”: 15th Century Accounts of Reception of Embassies in Mamlūk Chronicles