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Publications: P Yossef Rapoport

Rapoport Y ( 2025 ) . Travis Zadeh: <i>Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos</i> Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. ISBN 978 0 67425845 7 . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 87 , ( 3 ) 560 - 561 .
Rapoport Y, Daaïf L ( 2024 ) . The Book of Clear Arabic Expression regarding the Arab Tribes of Egypt . BRILL
Rapoport Y ( 2024 ) . “The Arabs who Witnessed the Conquest Were Lost in the Passage of Time”: Al‑Maqrīzī’s History of the Rural Tribesmen of Egypt . Annales islamologiques vol. 58 , 65 - 82 .
Rapoport Y ( 2023 ) . Wissam H Halawi, Les Druzes en marge de l’islam : ésotérisme et normativité en milieu rural (xive-xvi . Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques ( 37 )
Rapoport Y ( 2022 ) . <i>New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria. Proceedings of the Themed Day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies.</i> Edited by <scp>Jo Van Steenbergen</scp> and <scp>Maya Termonia</scp> . Journal of Islamic Studies vol. 33 , ( 3 ) 395 - 397 .
Rapoport Y ( 2021 ) . Criminal Underworld in a Medieval Islamic Society: Narratives from Cairo and Damascus under the Mamluks. By Carl F. Petry . Journal of the American Oriental Society vol. 135 , ( 2 )
Rapoport Y ( 2021 ) . Mariage et séparation à Damas au moyen âge: Un corpus de 62 documents juridiques inédits entre 337/948 et 698/1299. Edited by Jean-Michel Mouton, Domi nique Sourdel, and Janine Sourdel-Thomine . Journal of the American Oriental Society vol. 135 , ( 3 )
Rapoport Y ( 2021 ) . <i>Collective Liability in Islam: The ʿĀqila and Blood Money Payments</i> By <scp>Nurit Tsafrir</scp> . Journal of Islamic Studies vol. 33 , ( 1 ) 98 - 100 .
Rapoport Y ( 2020 ) . 1068 in the Fayyum: A Micro-History of an Environmental Crisis . Living with Nature and Things , V&R unipress
Rapoport Y ( 2019 ) . Jean-Charles Ducène: L'Europe et les géographes arabes du Moyen Âge. 502 pp. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2018. ISBN 978 2 271 08209 1 . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 82 , ( 3 ) 546 - 548 .
Rapoport Y ( 2019 ) . Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture. By Eve Krakowski . Journal of the American Academy of Religion vol. 87 , ( 2 ) 552 - 555 .
Rapoport Y ( 2019 ) . Rural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt . Brepols Publishers
Rapoport Y ( 2019 ) . The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers, written by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Idrīs al-Qarāfī al-Mālikī, 2017 . Islamic Law and Society vol. 26 , ( 1-2 ) 179 - 182 .
RAPOPORT Y, Savage-smith E ( 2018 ) . Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo . Chicago University Press
Rapoport Y ( 2018 ) . <b>Al-Azem, Talal: </b>\n <i>Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition: Ibn Quṭlūbughā’s Commentary on The Compendium of Qudūrī.</i> Leiden/Boston: Brill 2017. X, 257 S. 8° = Islamicate Intellectual History 2. Hartbd. € 110,00. ISBN 978-90-04-32283-7 . Orientalistische Literaturzeitung vol. 113 , ( 4-5 ) 378 - 380 .
RAPOPORT Y, SHAHAR I ( 2018 ) . The Villages of the Fayyum: A Thirteenth-Century Register of Rural, Islamic Egypt . Brepols
Rapoport Y ( 2018 ) . Rural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt A Study of Al-Nabulusi's Villages of the Fayyum . Medieval Countryside
Rapoport Y ( 2018 ) . Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History and Ethnography, ed. Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth . The English Historical Review vol. 133 , ( 562 ) 667 - 668 .
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2018 ) . Lost Maps of the Caliphs . University of Chicago Press
Rapoport Y ( 2017 ) . Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration . Journal of Historical Geography vol. 58 , 107 - 108 .
Patil S, Franklin M, Rapoport Y, Cornett EM, Fox CJ, Kaye AD ( 2017 ) . Considerations in Patients with Comorbidities, Pregnant and Pediatric Patients . Perioperative Management in Robotic Surgery , Cambridge University Press
Rapoport Y ( 2017 ) . Sophia Vasalou : Ibn Taymiyya's Theological Ethics. ix, 342 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £47.99. ISBN 978 0 19 939783 9 . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 80 , ( 1 ) 144 - 146 .
Rapoport Y ( 2016 ) . The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325, by Nathan Hofer . Ilahiyat Studies vol. 7 , ( 2 ) 306 - 308 .
RAPOPORT Y ( 2016 ) . Igarashi Daisuke, &lt;i&gt;Land Tenure, Fiscal Policy and Imperial Power in Medieval Syro-Egypt&lt;/i&gt;. Chicago: Middle Eastern Documentation Center, 2015 . Orient vol. 51 , ( 0 ) 161 - 163 .
Rapoport Y ( 2016 ) . The 51 Day War. Resistance and Ruin in Gaza . POLITICAL QUARTERLY vol. 87 , ( 1 ) 113 - 115 .
Rapoport Y ( 2015 ) . Le monde rural du Maghreb central (xiv<sup>e</sup>-xv<sup>e</sup>siècles): Réalités sociales et constructions juridiques d'après les<i>Nawāzil Māzūna</i> . Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations vol. 26 , ( 4 ) 535 - 537 .
Rapoport Y ( 2015 ) . <i>Law and Piety in Medieval Islam</i>By Megan H. Reid . Journal of Islamic Studies vol. 26 , ( 3 ) 311 - 312 .
Rapoport Y ( 2015 ) . Marriage and divorce in Damascus in the middle ages: A corpus of 62 new legal documents between 337/948 and 698/1299 . JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY vol. 135 , ( 3 ) 659 - 660 .
Rapoport Y ( 2014 ) . On Taql d: Ibn al Qayyim's Critique of Authority in Islamic Law By ABDUL-RAHMAN MUSTAFA . Journal of Islamic Studies vol. 25 , ( 3 ) 353 - 354 .
Rapoport Y ( 2014 ) . Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya . Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations vol. 25 , ( 4 ) 528 - 530 .
Rapoport Y ( 2014 ) . Anjum, Ovamir Politics, Law and Community in Islamic Thought. The Taymiyyan Moment.Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 314. ISBN: 978-1107014060. $99 . islamic law and society vol. 21 , ( 1-2 ) 148 - 150 .
RAPOPORT Y ( 2014 ) . “Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, His Wife, Her Slave-girl: romantic triangles and polygamy in fifteenth-century Cairo” . annales islamologiques327 - 351 .
Savage-Smith E, Rapoport Y ( 2014 ) . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe . BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2014 ) . Book One: On the Heavens . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe , BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2014 ) . Book One: On the Heavens – ‫ المقالة الأولى‬ . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe , BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2014 ) . Book Two: On the Earth . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe , BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2014 ) . Book Two: On the Earth – ‫المقالة الثانية‬ . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe , BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2014 ) . Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian MS Arab. c. 90 . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe , BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2014 ) . Introduction . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe , BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2014 ) . Sigla . An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe , BRILL
RAPOPORT Y ( 2014 ) . \New Directions in the Social history of the Mamluk Era \ . History and Society During the Mamluk Period (1250-1517) , V&R unipress GmbH
Rapoport Y ( 2013 ) . Jean-Charles Ducène (ed. and trans.): Les tables géographiques du manuscrit du sultan rasūlide al-Malik al-Afḍal. Edition, traduction et commentaire. (Academica Scientiarum Fennica.) 137, 62 pp. Helsinki: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2013. ISBN 978 951 41 1082 5 . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 76 , ( 3 ) 507 - 508 .
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2013 ) . Medieval Islamic View of the Cosmos: The Newly Discovered <i>Book of Curiosities</i> . The Cartographic Journal vol. 41 , ( 3 ) 253 - 259 .
Rapoport Y ( 2013 ) . 2. Mālik b. Anas (d. 179/795) . Islamic Legal Thought , BRILL
Rapoport Y ( 2013 ) . Kristen Stilt. Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-1996-0243-8. 254 pp. $100 . Islamic Law and Society vol. 20 , ( 4 ) 476 - 478 .
Rapoport Y ( 2013 ) . Shari’a: theory, practice, transformations. By Wael B. Hallaq. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix, 614 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-67874-2 (paperback). $68 . Islamic Law and Society vol. 20 , ( 1-2 ) 141 - 148 .
RAPOPORT Y, Swain S ( 2013 ) . \The Islamic Family: Aspects of Bryson's Influence\ . Economy, Family, and Society from Rome to Islam. A Critical Edition, English Translation, and Study of Bryson's Management of the Estate , Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge ),
Rapoport Y ( 2012 ) . <i>The Muslims of Medieval Italy</i>\n By Alex Metcalfe . Journal of Islamic Studies vol. 28 , ( 1 ) 120 - 123 .
Rapoport Y ( 2012 ) . The formation of Islamic hermeneutics: how Sunni legal theorists imagined revealed law . Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations vol. 23 , ( 4 ) 556 - 558 .
Rapoport Y ( 2012 ) . Tayeb El‐Hibri . Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs . New York: Columbia University Press. 2010. Pp. xi, 471. $60.00 . The American Historical Review vol. 117 , ( 3 ) 971 - 971 .
Rapoport Y, Shahar I ( 2012 ) . Irrigation in the Medieval Islamic Fayyum: Local Control in a Large-Scale Hydraulic System . Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient vol. 55 , ( 1 ) 1 - 31 .
Rapoport Y ( 2012 ) . Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs . AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW vol. 117 , ( 3 ) 971 - 971 .
RAPOPORT Y ( 2012 ) . Reflections of Fatimid Power in the Maps of Island Cities in the ‘Book of Curiosities’ . Herrschaft verorten: Politische Kartographie im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit , Chronos Verlag
RAPOPORT Y ( 2012 ) . Royal Justice and Religious Law: Siyāsah\nand Shariʿah under the Mamluks . Mamluk Studies Review vol. XVI , 71 - 102 .
Rapoport Y ( 2011 ) . Mohamed Ouerfelli and Élise Voguet (eds): Le monde rural dans l'Occident musulman médiéval. (Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 126.) 313 pp. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2009. €27. ISBN 978 2 85399 746 1 . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 74 , ( 1 ) 140 - 142 .
Rapoport Y ( 2011 ) . 8. The View From The South: The Maps Of The Book Of Curiosities And The Commercial Revolution Of The Eleventh Century . Histories of the Middle East , BRILL
Rapoport Y ( 2010 ) . Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050): the Kitab Akriyat al Sufun vis-a-vis the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos * By HASSAN S. KHALILIEH . Journal of Islamic Studies vol. 21 , ( 1 ) 131 - 132 .
RAPOPORT Y ( 2010 ) . Ibn Taymiyya's Radical Legal Thought: Rationalism, Pluralism and the Primacy of Intention . Ibn Taymiyya and his Times , Oxford University Press ( Karachi ),
Rapoport Y ( 2009 ) . Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society . Cambridge University Press
Rapoport Y ( 2009 ) . Charity in Islamic Societies . MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL vol. 63 , ( 2 ) 342 - 343 .
Rapoport Y ( 2009 ) . Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies. * BY JON HOOVER . Journal of Islamic Studies vol. 20 , ( 1 ) 95 - 99 .
Rapoport Y ( 2009 ) . Law, Custom and Statute in the Muslim World. Studies in Honor of Aharon Layish . Islamic Law and Society vol. 16 , ( 1 ) 107 - 111 .
Rapoport Y ( 2008 ) . Mark R. Cohen Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005). Pp. 312. $42.00 cloth . International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 40 , ( 2 ) 343 - 345 .
Rapoport Y ( 2008 ) . Chapter Eight. The Book Of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View Of The East . The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road , BRILL
Rapoport Y, Savage-Smith E ( 2008 ) . The Book Of Curiosities And A Unique Map Of The World . Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages , BRILL
RAPOPORT Y ( 2008 ) . The Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the East . The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road , vol. 21 , Brill ( Leiden ),
Savage-Smith E, RAPOPORT Y ( 2007 ) . The Book of Curiosities: A critical edition .
Rapoport Y ( 2007 ) . The Hanbal&amp;imacr School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah. Conflict or conciliation . Islamic Law and Society vol. 14 , ( 2 ) 287 - 291 .
RAPOPORT Y ( 2007 ) . Women and Gender in Mamluk Society – an Overview . Mamlūk Studies Review vol. 11 , ( 2 ) 1 - 45 .
SAVAGE-SMITH E, RAPOPORT Y ( 2006 ) . The Book of Curiosities: A critical edition . Bodleian Library
RAPOPORT Y ( 2004 ) . “Medieval Islamic view of the Cosmos: The newly discovered Book of Curiosities”, (www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/caj), . The Cartographic Journal vol. 41 , 253 - 259 .
RAPOPORT Y ( 2004 ) . \Invisible Peasants and Marauding Nomads: Taxation, Tribalism and Revolt in Mamluk Egypt\ . Mamluk Studies Review vol. 8 , 1 - 22 .
Rapoport Y ( 2004 ) . Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths . The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society , BRILL
Rapoport Y ( 2003 ) . Legal Diversity in the Age of Taqlid: the Four Chief Qadis Under the Mamluks . Islamic Law and Society vol. 10 , ( 2 ) 210 - 228 .
Rapoport Y ( 2003 ) . Rebellion and violence in Islamic law . MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES vol. 39 , ( 1 ) 207 - 208 .
RAPOPORT Y ( 2001 ) . Divorce and the elite household in late medieval Cairo . Continuity and Change vol. 16 , ( 2 ) 201 - 218 .
RAPOPORT Y . Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, His Wife, Her Slave-girl: romantic triangles and polygamy in fifteenth century Cairo . Annales Islmologiques vol. 47 , 327 - 351 .
Rapoport Y . The Rise of Provincial Arab Ruling Families in Mamluk Egypt, 1350–1517 . Mamluk studies Review vol. XXV ,