Adam Sabra

Recent Publications

Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

The Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriending Emirs and, The Abbreviated Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriendig Emirs by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad ‘Alī al-Sha‘rānī (Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2013)

‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha’rani, Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants to Befriending Emirs (New Haven: Yale University Press, World Literature in Translation Series, 2017)

Between the Private and Public Spheres: Charity and State Intervention in Mamluk Egypt (Tokyo: Center for Islamic Studies, Sophia University, SIAS Lectures, number 1, 2018)

Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, Kitāb Dustūr al-gharāʾib wa-maʿdan al-raghāʾib and Related Texts: The Correspondence (Inshāʾ) of Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī (930–994/1524–1586) (Göttingen: V&R Unipress; Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2020).