The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261-1517

Mustafa Banister is a post-doctoral researcher in Arabic Historiography at Ghent University, Belgium. He obtained a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015 and then spent several years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bonn and Ghent University. Banister has published articles in the Mamluk Studies Review and a chapter in Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam edited by Sebastian Gunther (Brill, 2020). His current research focuses on the historiographical writing of the Syro-Egyptian litterateur Ahmad ibn 'Arabshah (d. 1450).