Linda Northrup is Chair of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. She received her M.A and PhD at Mc Gill University. Northrup’s areas of research include the history of the medieval Arab Islamic world; Mamluk history and historiography; political, economic and social history and institutions, including medicine and culture; and landholding patterns and Muslim-Christian relations. Her publications include “Qalawun’s Patronage of the Medical Sciences in Thirteenth-Century Egypt” (2001); “From Slave to Sultan: The Career of al-Mansur Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria” (1998); and “The Bahri Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1390” (1998).
Chair, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
MA (McGill), PhD (McGill)
4 Bancroft Avenue, room 221
tel: (416) 978-0378.
email: linda.northrup@utoronto.ca
Selected publications
“Military Slavery in the Islamic and Mamluk Context,” (2007) in M. Erdem Kabadayi, Tobias Reichardt, eds. Unfreie Arbeit: Ökonomische und kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven, Skalaverei-Knechtschaft-Zwangsarbeit, Band 3. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag pp. 115-31
“Qalawun’s Patronage of the Medical Sciences in Thirteenth-Century Egypt” (2001)
From Slave to Sultan: The Career of al-Mansur Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria (678-689 AH/1279-1290 AD) (1998)
“The Bahri Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1390” (1998)
“Life in Jerusalem during the Mamluk Period as Portrayed in the Documents of al-Haram al-Sharif” (in Arabic, 1994)