Gowaart Van Den Bossche

Postdoc in Arabic history and literature at @ugent (@FWOVlaanderen) // Musician (yadayn, Kassei, Zura Zaj) // he/him/his

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@LoehrNadine @boris_liebrenz Here is the full manuscript: https://t.co/1gD5451xqs

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

I came across this note on a manuscript now held in the Uppsala University Library. Anyone recognises what this might be? Some kind of secret script perhaps?

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@boris_liebrenz @LoehrNadine Thanks @LoehrNadine and @boris_liebrenz , that's really exciting! I briefly looked into Hasselquist's travelogue to see if it had any references to where he might have procured his manuscripts, but I had little luck. Perhaps it's worth revisiting though, I only had a brief look!

[De Gruyter Religion ➡️ @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyter_TRS]

It was a wonderful launch for @gowaart’s fantastic book. Thanks to @sarahsavant1 and the whole team behind the “Arabic Pasts” workshop.

@AKUISMC @SOAS

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

Very nice first day of Arabic Pasts yesterday, ending with a lovely launch for my book “Literary Spectacles of Sultanship” @degruyter_TRS . Yossef Rapoport kindly provided thoughtful comments as respondent.

[Fatimid History @fatimid_studies]

@yusufumrethwala @maximromanov @eis1600project Special event: @gowaart’s book launch (Literary Spectacles of Sultanship) with Yossef Rapoport.

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

Follow-up: you can now register for this week's Arabic Pasts conference which will include a book launch with me and some very nice respondents on the 5th of October. It's hybrid, so you can follow online, or live at @AKUISMC if you're in London!
https://t.co/gaPawq1wF5

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

We're planning a small book launch in the context of this year's Arabic Pasts at @AKUISMC on the 5th of Oct. I presented some of the earliest research that went into the book at the 2015 Arabic Pasts conference, so it's a bit like bringing the book home. https://t.co/ys50ao8ftW

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@N_S_Hussain @aslishahqurbani @degruyter_TRS Thank you Neelam! Would be great to see you there. I'm not 100% sure right now, but there was talk at some point of recording it.

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

New release indeed! Here's a pic of one the physical copies which I went to pick up today. Quite surreal but very nice to hold an actual book with my name on it in my hands. @degruyter_TRS

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#NewRelease
#Mamluk #Egypt #Historiography #Biographies #ibn_Abd_al_Ẓāhir #Al_Ẓāhir_Baybars #Legitimisation
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt
by: Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart
PUB: De Gruyter 2023

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@aslishahqurbani @degruyter_TRS Thank you Asli! I see what you did there ;) Looking forward as well

[De Gruyter Religion ➡️ @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyter_TRS]

🎉#NewReleases
@gowaart's BRAIS-De Gruyter price-winning thesis about two chancery officials and the biographies of #Mamluk sultans they wrote is now a book.

Congratulations! 🥳🍾

@BRAIS_UK
👉🏽https://t.co/TMoQQ3OrW0

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@Ikram_haque Thank you very much Ikram! I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it then.

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@princemems @degruyter_TRS Merci beaucoup Clarck!

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@HulsterKristof @degruyter_TRS Bedankt Kristof!

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@ElMerhebMohamad @degruyter_TRS Thank you Mohamad!

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@PaulaManstetten @degruyter_TRS Thank you very much Paula! :)

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

We're planning a small book launch in the context of this year's Arabic Pasts at @AKUISMC on the 5th of Oct. I presented some of the earliest research that went into the book at the 2015 Arabic Pasts conference, so it's a bit like bringing the book home. https://t.co/ys50ao8ftW

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

Here it is alongside my 2018 dissertation on which it is based. Many thanks to all those who read (parts of) the dissertation and helped to transform it into this book!

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

The newscycle and discourse have sort of moved on, but here's a piece I wrote last week on the new wave of destructions in Cairo, and on mourning more generally. I'm not an expert, so please just take it for what it is: a personal reflection. https://t.co/e2wf37MbN2

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@ElMerhebMohamad @NWOFunding @FacultyofArtsUG @univgroningen Alf mabruk Mohamad! Looking forward to hear more about the project.

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@NPosegay I would say القشيري for the final nisba (quite widely attested as a nisba too) and am not convinced by الموصلي but haven't got a better solution to offer at the moment!

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

@PieterCoppens8 @arabegarnier Ik vertrek zelf donderdagnamiddag , maar we vinden zeker ergens een moment dan!

[Gowaart Van Den Bossche @gowaart]

I'll be travelling to Lyon this week to give a talk about my ongoing research on the Egyptian amir-historian Baybars al-Mansuri in a very nice panel on Arabic historiography with @arabegarnier, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont and Jennifer Vanz.

[Sébastien Garnier @arabegarnier]

At the panel L’historiographie dans l’Orient et l’Occident arabes (GIS MOMM 2023, Lyon), I’ll deal on Tuesday, July 11 (8.30 am, Déméter 047) with “Raconter le passé: quelques questions soulevées par l’historiographie hafside”.
https://t.co/UdAfQRDBe5