Twelfth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, July 23– 25, 2026, University of Pennsylvania
Thu 23 Jul
|Kislak Center University of Pennsylvania
The conference will be conducted in two parts: a themed day on “The Mamluks and the Crusades” (July 23) and two days of panels with open themes (July 24-25).
Time & Location
23 Jul 2026, 09:00 – 25 Jul 2026, 17:00
Kislak Center University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
About the Event
We are pleased to announce that the Twelfth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies will be held at the University of Pennsylvania (aka “Penn”) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 23-25, 2026.
https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
The conference will be conducted in two parts: a themed day on “The Mamluks and the Crusades” (July 23) and two days of panels with open themes (July 24-25). The conference will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on “The Crusades and Islamic History” (July 20-22).
The first day, July 23, will be themed and dedicated to the history of experiences of the crusading movement within the Mamluk sultanate (1250-1517), before and after the fall of Acre in 1291. The rise of the Mamluk sultanate brought with it a palpable shift in the dynamic between the remaining Crusader states and the Muslim polities of the Middle East and north Africa that has yet to be fully explored.…