1 février 2018
Torsten Wollina, « An African Sufi shaykh in Damascus: Mubārak al-Qābūnī al-Ḥabashī », Damascus Anecdotes, ID : 10670/1.5y1n9j
In the US, February is Black History Month and that provides the welcome opportunity to return to one of my favourite characters from the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman sources. I am currently awaiting the publication of an article I dedicated to him, and he also appeared in another that I announced here earlier this year. Finally, he was prominent in my book as well. Instead of providing my own biographical sketch (that can be read in the announced and the upcoming articles), I thought it mig...