Jelle Bruning
University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic
- Name
- Dr. J. Bruning
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1396
- j.bruning@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9935-3505
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.
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 Jelle Bruning works extensively with published and unpublished texts in Arabic, Coptic and Greek such as papyrus documents, inscriptions and literary texts.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
University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Bruning J. (2024), Arabic documents for slavery in early Islamic Egypt. In: Rowlandson J.L., Bagnall R.S. & Thompson D.J. (Eds.), Slavery and dependence in Ancient Egypt: sources in translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 406-431.
- Bruning J. & Beek R. van (2024), De oudste Arabische beschrijving van Nederland: een opmerkelijke tekst over een vooral vreemde wereld, Madoc: tijdschrift over de middeleeuwen 37(3-4): 140-150.
- Bruning J. (2023), Voluntary enslavement in an Abbasid-era papyrus letter, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 33(3): 643-659.
- Bruning J. (2023), Tombstones for slaves from Abbasid-era Egypt, Slavery & Abolition 44(4): 616-637.
- Bruning J. & Huseini S.R. (2023), Slavery in Byzantium and the medieval Islamicate world: texts and contexts, Slavery & Abolition 44(4): 583-592.
- Bruning J. (2022), Imperial policies and the organization of the war fleet in early Islamic Egypt. In: Berkes L. (Ed.), Christians and Muslims in early Islamic Egypt. American Studies in Papyrology no. 56. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 33-50.
- Bruning J., Jong J.H.M. de & Sijpesteijn P.M. (Eds.) (2022), Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Bruning J. (2022), The destruction of Alexandria: religious imagery and local identity in early Islamic Egypt. In: Bruning J., Jong J.H.M. de & Sijpesteijn P.M. (Eds.), Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 325-352.
- Bruning J., Jong J.H.M. de & Sijpesteijn P.M. (2022), Introduction. In: Bruning J., Jong J.H.M. de & Sijpesteijn P.M. (Eds.), Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-16.
- Bruning J. (21 January 2021), The intriguing messages of a Muslim slave's tombstone. Leiden Islam Blog. [blog entry].
- Bsees U., Berkes L., Bruning J., Portillo R.D., Garosi E., Hradek M., Kaplony A., Krakowski E., Sonego L., Tarras P., Thomann J., Younes K., Ženka J. & Zinger O. (2021), Annotated bibliography "Arabic Papyrology, archives, and times of change in the Mediterranean and the Islamicate world": New Publications 2020-2021 and Addenda 2019, Der Islam: journal of the history and culture of the middle east 98(2): 546-569.
- Berkes L., Bruning J., Bsees U., Portillo R.D., Garosi E., Hradek M., Kaplony A., Potthast D., Reinfandt L., Sonego L., Thomann J. & Zinger O. (2020), Annotated Bibliography "Arabic Papyrology and Documentary Studies on the Mediterranean and the Islamicate World": New Publications 2019 and Addenda 2018, Der Islam: journal of the history and culture of the middle east 97(2): 533-631.
- Bruning J. & Younes K. (2020), An Arabic Papyrus Recording the Lineage of ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 57: 9-17.
- Bruning J. (25 September 2020), A Confirmed Bachelor Wishes to Marry. Papyrus Stories: Everyday Stories from the Ancient Past. [blog entry].
- Bruning J. (2020), Slave trade dynamics in Abbasid Egypt: the papyrological evidence, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 63(5-6): 682-742.
- Bruning J. (2020), A call to arms: an account of Ayyubid or early Mamluk Alexandria, Al-'Usur al-Wusta 28: 74-115.
- Bruning J., Portillo R.D., Garosi E., Hradek M., Kaplony A., Metz S., Potthast D., Sipi M. & Zinger O. (2019), Annotated bibliography "Arabic papyrology and diplomatics": new publications 2018 and addenda 2017, Der Islam: journal of the history and culture of the middle east 96(2): 471-563.
- Bruning J. (2019), Review of: Rapoport Y., Shahar I. & Rapoport Y. (2018), The Villages of the Fayyum: A Thirteenth-Century Register of Rural Islamic Egypt | Rural Economy and Tribal Society in Islamic Egypt: A Study of al-Nabulusi's Villages of the Fayyum. The Medieval Countryside no. 18 | 19. Turnhout: Brepols. Bibliotheca Orientalis 76(5-6): 546-552.
- Bruning J. (2018), Developments in Egypt's early Islamic postal system (with an edition of P.Khalili II 5), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 81(1): 25-40.
- Bruning J. (2018), The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750. Islamic history and civilization: studies and texts no. 153. Leiden: Brill.
- Bruning J. (2015), A Legal Sunna in Dhikr Ḥaqqs from Sufyanid Egypt, Islamic Law and Society 22(4): 352-374.
- Bruning J. (2015), Review of: Tillier M. (2002), Vies des cadis de Miṣr 237/851-366/976: Extrait du Rafʿ al-iṣr ʿan quḍāt Miṣr d’Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī. Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire. Bibliotheca Orientalis 72(1-2): 241-243.
- Bruning J. (2014), A reused piece of paper with a personal letter and a list (P.Stras.Copt. 20). In: Boud'hors A., Delattre A., Louis C. & Richter T.S. (Eds.), Coptica Argentoratensia: Textes et documents de la troisième université d'été de papyrologie copte (Strasbourg, 18-25 juillet 2010). Paris: Éditions de Boccard. 199-205.
- Bruning J. (2 April 2014), The rise of a capital: on the development of al-Fusṭāṭ's relationship with its hinterland, 18/639-132/750 (Dissertatie. Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Sijpesteijn P.M., Berkel M.L.M. van.
- Bruning J. (16 April 2014), Graan en autoriteiten: De commerciële ontwikkeling van een vroeg-middeleeuwse stad in Egypte. Leiden Islam Blog. [blog entry].
- Bruning J. (2012), The 'Tuḥfat al-aṭibbāʼ wa-ḏaḫīrat al-aṭibbāʼ', ascribed to Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, and the 'ar-Risāla al-Hārūniyya', ascribed to Masīḥ b. al-Ḥakam: two members of one family, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 19: 195-226.
- Bruning J. (2012), Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Dāya (3rd/9th c.): a study into his life and works, Journal of Semitic Studies 57(1): 97-120.
- Bruning J. (2010), Veroveren met Gods zegen, bekeren zonder zwaard: interview met Hugh Kennedy, Geschiedenis Magazine 45(2): 24-27.