Publications

Books

Monographs
upcoming book

Mehdi Berriah, ʿAyn Jālūt (658/1260) : histoire et mémoire d’une bataille, Cairo, Ifao, 2026 (forthcoming)

upcoming book

Mehdi Berriah, The Mamluk Art of War (1250-1375): Strategies and Tactics, engl. transl. Anna Galietti, Leiden, Brill (forthcoming)

mehdi berriah, l’art de la guerre chez les mamelouks

Mehdi Berriah, L’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks (1250-1375) : stratégies et tactiques, Leyde, Brill (Series Islamic History and Civilization, volume 214), 2024, 744 p. + XXVII

les mamelouks les cavaliers de l’islam

Mehdi Berriah, Les Mamelouks : les cavaliers de l’Islam. Études sur l’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks, Paris, Héritage, 2021, 217 p.

Collective volumes
upcoming book

Mehdi Berriah & Hassan Bouali, Discours et imaginaires eschatologiques de l’islam (VII-XXI siècle), Berlin, De Gruyter (forthcoming)

ibn taymiyya’s thought corpus, reception and legacy

Mehdi Berriah & Arjan Post (eds.), Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2026, 300 p.

the medieval jihad texts, theories and practices

Mehdi Berriah and Abbès Zouache (eds.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Cairo, Ifao, 2025, 236 p.

annales islamologiques

Mehdi Berriah & Clément Onimus (eds.), Annales Islamologiques 56, special issue : Ǧihād et fitna : penser et concevoir la guerre dans le Mašriq médiéval, Ifao, Cairo, 2023, 328 p.

professional mobility in islamic societies

Mehdi Berriah & Mohamad El-Merheb (eds.), Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches, Brill, Leiden, 2021, 260 p.

 

Journal articles

peer-reviewed
  1. “The Merits and Superiority of Arabs and the Arabic Language in Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328): Ethnic-Religious Discourse and Political Agenda”, Bulletin des études orientales 72 (under peer-review)
  2. “The Theology of Self-Sacrifice in Jihad: A Study of Ibn Taymiyya’s Qāʿida fī l-inġimās fī l-ʿaduww wa-hal yūbāḥ”, Arabica 73, 2026 (forthcoming)
  3. “Ibn Taymiyya as a Hermeneutical Paradigm: Reception and Reactivation of Medieval Islamic Thought in the Jihadist Discourse of Ayman al-Zawahiri”, Ijtihad Journal for Islamic and Arabic Studies 2/4 (2025): 21-68.
  4. “Ambiguity and Confusion around the Celebration of the Mawlid. On Ibn Taymiyya’s Position and its Use in Contemporary Religious Debates”, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM), 155, 2024), 87-104.
  5. “Some New Insights regarding Mamluk Siege Artillery”, Annales islamologiques, 56, 2023, 139-159.
  6. With Clément Onimus, “Introduction : Ǧihād et fitna, entre pratique du conflit et discours sur la guerre”, Annales Islamologiques 56, 2023, 3-11. [open access DOI: 10.4000/anisl.10904]
  7. With Maxime Petitjean, “La théorie militaire sassanide : regards croisés”, Antiquité Tardive. Revue Internationale d’Histoire et d’Archéologie (IVe-VIIIe siècle) 30, 2022, 181-199.
  8. “ʿAyn Ǧālūt (658/1260): Re-evaluating of a So-Called Decisive Battle”, Annales islamologiques 55, Ifao, 2021, 63-88. [open access DOI: 10.4000/anisl.9559]
  9. “Ibn Taymiyya’s Methodology regarding his Sources: Reading, Selection and Use. Preliminary Study and Perspectives”, Filologie medievali e moderne. Serie orientale, 26/5 (Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond), Elise Franssen (éd.), Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venice, 2022, 45-81.
  10.  “Ibn Taymiyya’s Conception of Jihad: Corpus, General Aspects, and Research Perspectives”, Teosofi 12, no. 1, 2022, 43-70.
  11. “The Mamluk Sultanate and the Mamluks seen by Ibn Taymiyya: between Praise and Criticism”, Arabian Humanities 14, 2020 [open access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/cy.6491]
  12. “Représentations, sunnanisation et sacralisation de la furūsiyya à l’époque mamelouke (XIIIe-XVIe siècle)”, Bulletin d’études orientales 67, 2020, 229-246.
  13. “Un aspect de l’art de la guerre de l’armée mamelouke : la pratique de la “fausse ouverture” à la bataille de Šaqḥab (702/1303)”, Arabica 65/4, 2018, 431-469. [DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341499]
  14. “Le cheval arabe chez les Mamelouks, entre pragmatisme, symboles et représentations”, Arabian Humanities 8, 2017 [open access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/cy.3398]
Book chapters
  1. “Ziyārat al-qubūr: bidʿa or not? A Case of Divergence and Theological Debate in the Mamluk Period”, in The Sacred in Mamluk Society, Tetsuya Ohtoshi & Alex Mallett (eds.), Brill, Leiden (forthcoming, accepted after peer-review)
  2. “Minor Jihad Tradition in Ibn ʿArabī: Preliminary Data and Analysis”, in Mehdi Berriah & Aiyub Palmer (eds.), Tasawwuf and Traditionalism in Islam, Leiden, Brill (forthcoming, accepted after peer-review)
  3. “Jihad as a Tool for Sanctifying and Constructing the Image of Qutuz as a Mujāhid Sultan”, in Javier Albarràn (ed.), Sanctity and War in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond (forthcoming, accepted after peer-review)
  4.  “The Mongols as Eschatological Actors and Heralds in Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328)”, in Mehdi Berriah & Hassan Bouali (eds.), Discours et imaginaires eschatologiques de l’islam (VII-XXI siècle), De Gruyter (forthcoming, accepted after peer-review)
  5. With Arjan Post, “Rethinking the Taymiyyan Phenomenon: Contexts, Corpus and Reception”, in Mehdi Berriah & Arjan Post (eds.), Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy, KU Leuven University Press, Leuven (forthcoming, accepted after peer-review)
  6. “Jins and Exorcism in Ibn Taymiyya” in Mehdi Berriah & Arjan Post (eds.), Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy, KU Leuven University Press, Leuven (forthcoming, accepted after peer-review).
  7. “Next Mamluk Target? Ibn Taymiyya on Cyprus”, in Commerce and Crusade: The Mamluk Empire and Cyprus in a Euro-Mediterranean Perspective, Georg Christ (ed.), Peeters, Leuven, 2025, 65-95.
  8. “The Disagreement Between ʿUlamāʾ and Mamluk Sultans About the Thorny Issue of Jihad Financing: A Case Study of Islamic Law”, dans Mehdi Berriah & Abbès Zouache (éd.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Ifao, Le Caire, 2025, p. 189-220.
  9. “The Impact of Geographical, Climatic and Meteorological Features of Syria on the Mamluk-Ilkhanid Mongol Conflict”, in Mehdi Berriah and Abbès Zouache (eds.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Ifao, Cairo, 2025, p. 171-188.
  10. With Abbès Zouache, “Studying Medieval Jihad as a Multidimensional Phenomenon: Corpus, Holistic Approach, Temporalities and Contextualization”, in Mehdi Berriah and Abbès Zouache (eds.), The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, Ifao, Cairo, 2025, p. 1-17.
  11. “Introduction”, dans Mehdi Berriah (éd.), Les Mamelouks : les cavaliers de l’Islam. Études sur l’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks, Paris, Héritage, 2022, 7-16.
  12. “La construction de l’image du sultan muǧāhid chez les Mamelouks”, dans Mehdi Berriah (éd.), Les Mamelouks : les cavaliers de l’Islam. Études sur l’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks, Paris, Héritage, 2022, 176-215.
  13. “Les réseaux de forteresses mamlukes en Syrie du Nord”, in Atlas des mondes médiévaux musulmans, Sylvie Denoix & Hélène Renel (eds.), Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2022, 298-299. [ISBN : 9782271139498]
  14. “La fin des États latins”, in Atlas des mondes médiévaux musulmans, Sylvie Denoix & Hélène Renel (eds.), Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2022, 296-297.
  15. “Mobility and Versatility of the ʿulamaʾ in the Mamluk Period: the Case of Ibn Taymiyya”, in Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches, Mehdi Berriah & Mohamad El-Merheb (eds.), Brill, Leiden, 2021, 98-130.
  16. With Mohamad El Merheb, “Professional Mobility as a Defining Characteristic of Pre-Modern Islamic Civilisation”, in Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches, Mehdi Berriah & Mohamad El Merheb (eds.), Brill, Leiden, 2021, 1-11.
Workshop/conference proceedings
  1. “Combattre par la plume, le prêche et l’épée : les représentations du rôle des ulémas dans l’effort du jihad mamelouk (moitié viie/xiiie — début ixe/xive siècles)”, in Sylvie Denoix & Salam Diab-Duranton (eds.), Représentations et symbolique de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe, Ifao, Cairo, 2024, 251-276. [ISBN 9782724710007]
  2. “La conduite de la guerre de l’armée mamelouke face aux Mongols (XIIIe-XIVe siècles)”, Actes du 16e colloque international du département des sciences historiques de l’université de Laval, 17-19 février 2016, Presses de l’université de Laval, Québec, 2017, 131-154.

Book Reviews

  1. “Mohamad El-Merheb, Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate, Édimbourg, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 224 p.”, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques [online], 39, 2025[https://journals.openedition.org/bcai/9164]
  2. “Olivier Hanne, Histoire du djihad : des origines de l’islam à Daech, Paris, Tallandier, 2024, 512 p.”, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques [online], 39, 2025  [https://journals.openedition.org/bcai/9704]
  3. “Chauki Lazhar, Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function, London/New-York, Routledge, 2023, 352 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques [online], 38, 2024.
  4. “Mustafa Banister, The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo, 1261‒1517. Out of the Shadows, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2021, 494 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, 37 [https://doi.org/10.4000/bcai.1416
  5. “Clément Onimus, Les maîtres du jeu. Pouvoir et violence politique à l’aube du sultanat mamlouk circassien (784-815/1382-1412), Éditions de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2019, 536 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 36, 2022, [online DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/bcai.1036]
  6. “Mathieu Eychenne, Stéphane Pradines & Abbès Zouache (dir.), Guerre et paix dans le Proche-Orient médiéval (xe-xve siècle), Ifao/Ifpo, 2019, 574 p.”, Revue des mondes musulmans et de de la Méditerranée 149, 2021 [onlinehttps://journals.openedition.org/remmm/15003]
  7. “William Granara, Narrating Muslim Sicily. War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World, London, I. B. Tauris (Early and Medieval Islamic World), 2019, 240 p.”, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 35, 2021[onlinehttps://www.ifao.egnet.net/bcai/35/30/]
  8. “Giovanna Calasso & Guiliano Lancioni, Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb. Territories, People, Identities, Leyden, Brill, 2017, 450 p.” Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 35, 2021 [online https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bcai/35/25/]
  9. “Jean-François Breton et François Villeneuve, Préface Mounir Arbach,
    La guerre en Arabie antique. Actes des XXIIe Rencontres Sabéennes, Paris, Geuthner, 2019”, Arabian Humanities14, 2020 [online https://doi.org/10.4000/cy.6246]
  10. “David Nicolle, Mamluk ‘Askari, Oxford/New-York, Osprey, 2014”, Revue historique des armées n. 284 – September 2016, Service historique de la Défense, p. 136-137 [https://www.academia.edu/31635573/David_Nicolle_Mamluk_Askari_1250_1517_Osprey_New_York_Londres_2014_64_p]
  11. “Reuven Amitaï, Holy War and Rapprochement. Studies in the Relations between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate (1260-1335), Turnhout, Brepols, (Miroir de l’Orient musulman, 4), 2013”, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée 142, [online: https://remmm.revues.org/9399], 2017.
  12. “Abbès Zouache & Mathieu Eychenne (dir.), La guerre dans le Proche-Orient médiéval (Xe-XVe s.). État de la question, lieux communs, nouvelles approches, Ifao/Ifpo, Le Caire, 2015”, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 30 [online : http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bcai/30/29/], 2016.

Posts

  1. “Le jihad dans l’œuvre d’Ibn Taymiyya (mort en 1328)”, website Comprendre l’islam, 11 January, 2022 https://comprendrelislam.fr/islam-et-violence/le-jihad-dans-loeuvre-dibn-taymiyya-mort-en-1328/
  2.  “The Issue of Financing Jihād in Islamic Law: Three Case Studies from the Mamlūk Period”, SHARIAsource – Islamic Law Blog, Programme of Islamic Law Harvard, September 9, 2021. https://islamiclaw.blog/2021/09/09/mehdi-berriah-guest-editor/
  3. “Episodes in which the ʿUlamāʾ, according to Islamic Law, were Opposed to the Tax”, SHARIAsource – Islamic Law Blog, Programme of Islamic Law Harvard, September 16, 2021. https://islamiclaw.blog/2021/09/16/mehdi-berriah-guest-editor-2/
  4. “The Sharīʿa on the Financing of Jihād”, SHARIAsource – Islamic Law Blog, Programme of Islamic Law Harvard, September 23, 2021. https://islamiclaw.blog/2021/09/23/mehdi-berriah-guest-editor-3/
  5. “A Lack of Resources in the bayt al-māl: A Sine Qua Non Condition for the Imposition of a Tax?”, SHARIAsource – Islamic Law Blog, Programme of Islamic Law Harvard, September 30, 2021. https://islamiclaw.blog/2021/09/30/mehdi-berriah-guest-editor-4/