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Fozia Bora

Fozia Bora is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Islamic History at the University of Leeds. She took her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Oxford, and worked as a journalist before returning to academic life. Her monograph Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World – The Value of Chronicles as Archives was published by I B Tauris in June 2019. Her previous article ‘Did Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Destroy the Fatimids' Books? An Historiographical Enquiry’ was awarded the Royal Asiatic Society’s Staunton Prize for ‘outstanding work by an early career scholar’. Fozia is Islam consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition), a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Islam 3 and a Council Member of the British Association of Islamic Studies. She lives with her partner, children and cats in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and tweets at Islamicate History (@FoziaBora).

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Archives and Archival Sensibilities in Medieval Arabic Historiography

By Fozia Bora // December 3, 2019

In the year 1256, the first Mamluk sultan Aybak endowed a Sunni law college in old Cairo named al-Mu‘izziyya, an institution built using high-quality masonry acquired from the dilapidated Rawḍa Citadel on the Nile. A…