Publications

For projects in progress and upcoming conference papers, see Research.

Short Articles and Editions, and Encyclopedia Entries:

  • “Preface,” in Artistic and Cultural Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ed. María Marcos Cobaleda (New York: Palgrave, 2021), pp. vii-ix. •
  • The best books on the multi-religious Mediterranean” Beta Shepherd (15 November 2021) 
  • “Conveniencia en tiempos de los Reinos Taifas,” Al-Andalus y la historia (26 June 2020) 
  • “Mudéjares,” in Oxford Islamic Studies Online • “Pandemic Research” American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain Members blog (27 September) 2018 
  • “Forward: Thomas F. Glick and Convivencia,” in Convivencia and Medieval Spain: Essays in Honor of Thomas F. Glick, ed. Mark Abate (New York: Palgrave, 2018), vii–xiii. 
  • “‘Western Culture’ and Where it Really Came From.” 10 September, Hurst Publishers Blog. 
  • “Islamic Spain Ended in the 15th Century and We Still Can’t Agree If It Was a Paradise or Hell?”: Sunday, 10 June History News Network (www.hnn.org) +  
  •  “Interfaith Dialogue and Disputation in the Medieval Mediterranean” (with Alex J. Novikoff) Medieval Encounters 24: 503–509. 
  • "'Western Culture' and Where it Really Came From." 10 September 2018, Hurst Publishers Blog
  • “Islamic Spain Ended in the 15th Century and We Still Can’t Agree If It Was a Paradise or Hell?”: Sunday, 10 June 2018, History News Network (www.hnn.org)
  • “Foreword: Thalatta! Thalatta! Towards the Sea,” co-author S. Kinoshita, in Can We Talk Mediterranean? Reflections on an Emerging Paradigm in Medieval Studies, ed. B. Catlos, with S. Kinoshita (New York: Palgrave), pp. v–x. 
  • “The Caliphate in the West,” excerpt from Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors reprinted in Edward Curtis, ed., The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), pp. 11–16. 
  • “The Dangerous Nonsense Ben Carson Is Spreading About Muslims”: Sunday, 25 October 2015, History News Network (www.hnn.org)
  • “Religious nationalism finds a footing in the Middle East”: Saturday, 3 January The Washington Post [reprinted in The Nation (Bangok), 7 January 2015; excerpted in History News Network Round-Up, 9 January, abdridged in Pittsburgh Tribune, 10 January 2015]
  • "Acre," "Ahmad Ibn Tulun," "Aleppo," "Arabia," "Bohemond I of Taranto," "Constantinople, Latin Empire of (1204-61)," "Cyprus, kings of," "Damascus," "Damietta," "Egypt ," "Hilal (Banu Hilal)," "Imam," "Jaffa," "Jerusalem, kings of," "Kharijites," "Militia Christi," "Montreal (castle)," "Nicosia," "Outremer," "Raymond of Poitiers," "Raymond, Count of Tripoli," "Tiberias," "Tripoli," "William of Tyre," "Zirid Dynasty" in Robert Björk, ed., Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
  • "Mudejars," "Muhammad Abenadalill" in International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online (IEMA) (Brepols: Turnhout, 2006).
  • "Barbastro," "Ceuta," "Conversion, in Iberia," "Hafsids," "Mozarabs," and "Mudéjars and Moriscos" in Alan V. Murray, ed., Encyclopedia of the Crusades (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2006), I: 154–55, II: 234–35 & 553, III: 857–58 & 858–60 & on-line at ebooks.abc-clio.com.
  • American Academy of Research Historians of Spain. Newsletter. Editor, Spring & Fall issues.
  • "Harun al-Rashid," "Saladin," "Umar ibn al-Khattab" in William H. McNeill, et al., eds., Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History 5 Volumes (Berkshire Publishing Group: Great Barrington MA, 2005), III: 893–894; IV: 1654–1655; V: 1914–1915.
  • "Idsirids" and "Party Kingdoms: Iberian Peninsula" in Josef Meri, ed., The Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization (New York: Routledge, 2005), I: 381–382 & II: 593–595.
  • "The Capture of Barbastro: Terror, Vengeance and Politics in Eleventh-Century Spain" Clio's Psyche (Psychohistory Forum) 8:4 (March, 2002): 173–175.
  • "Quick Guide to Barcelona" The Independent on Sunday (UK), 4 March, 2001.
  • "Bukhara", "Gold Trade (Africa)" and "Trebizond" in J. Freedman, ed., Encyclopedia of Travel and Trade in the Middle Ages (New York: Garland, 2000), 82, 234–235 and 616–617.
  • "Introduction" (with Karla Mallette) Scripta Mediterranea 19/20 (1998/1999): 5–8.
  • "Mamelukes", "Mudejars", "Saqaliba" and "Trans-Saharan Slave Trade" in Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery 2 Volumes (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 1997), 425, 444–445, 565 and 647–648.
  • "Washka" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition, 1996), XI: 159–160 [also in CD-ROM and French-language print editions]