Jelle Bruning is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research interests include the social and literary history of the medieval Islamicate world. His current research projects focus on the history of slavery and the literary representation of sacred geography among Muslim communities, mainly in Egypt, in the seventh through tenth centuries CE.

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Fields of interest

Jelle Bruning’s research interests include the social and literary history of the medieval Islamicate world. In 2018, he published a monograph on the first centuries of Islamic rule in Egypt. He also edited a volume on Egypt’s early medieval cross-regional connections within the eastern Mediterranean basin and a special issue on the history of slavery in Byzantium and the early medieval Islamicate world. His current research projects focus on the social history of slavery and the literary representation of sacred geography among Muslim communities, mainly in Egypt, in the seventh through tenth centuries CE. Jelle Bruning works extensively with published and unpublished texts in Arabic, Coptic and Greek such as papyrus documents, inscriptions and literary texts.

Education

Ph.D. in Islamic history, Leiden University (2014)

Teaching and related activities

Dr Bruning teaches courses on bachelor, master and research master levels in the fields of:

• History of the medieval Islamicate world
• Arabic papyrology and epigraphy
• Islamic codicology
• Arabic language acquisition

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Activities