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.
Jelle Bruning specializes in the social and intellectual history of early-Islamic Egypt (ca. 640-1000 CE). He works extensively with documentary sources in Arabic, Coptic, and Greek and contemporary literary texts. In 2018, he published a monograph on the centrality of Fustat during the reigns of the Rightly-Guided and Umayyad caliphs. He currently works on a critical edition, translation and study of Ibn al-Sabbagh's late-10th-century treatise on Alexandria's religious merits.
Fields of interest
- Papyrology (Arabic, Coptic, Greek)
- Arabic Studies
- Islamic History
- Islamic Studies
- Middle Eastern Studies
Education
Ph.D. in early Islamic history, Leiden University (2014)
Key publications
- “A Legal Sunna in Dhikr Ḥaqqs from Sufyanid Egypt”. Islamic Law and Society 22/4 (2015): 352-374.
- Review of M. Tillier, Vies des cadis de Miṣr 237/851-366/976: Extrait du Rafʿ al-iṣr ʿan quḍāt Miṣr d’Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī (Cairo: IFAO, 2002). In Bibliotheca Orientalis 72/1-2 (2015): 241-243.
- “A Reused Piece of Paper with a Personal Letter and a List” ( P.Stras.Copt. 20). In Coptica Argentoratensia: Textes et documents de la troisième université d'été de papyrologie copte (Strasbourg, 18-25 juillet 2010), ed. A. Boud’hors et al., 199-205. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2014.
- “Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Dāya (3rd/9th C.): A Study into His Life and Works”, Journal of Semitic Studies 57/1 (2012): 97-120.
- “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 (2010-11): 195-226.
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. (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. (2023), Voluntary enslavement in an Abbasid-era papyrus letter, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 33(3): 643-659.
- 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. (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. (Eds.) (2022), Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 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. (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.
- Bruning J. (25 September 2020), A Confirmed Bachelor Wishes to Marry. Papyrus Stories: Everyday Stories from the Ancient Past. [blog entry].
- 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.
- 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. (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. (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., 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. (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. (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. (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. (16 April 2014), Graan en autoriteiten: De commerciële ontwikkeling van een vroeg-middeleeuwse stad in Egypte. Leiden Islam Blog. [blog entry].
- 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. (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.