Apellaniz Francisco Javier

Francisco Apellaniz
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-3545


Biography

With a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, I have taught Islamic and Ottoman History at the Université Aix-Marseille at Aix-en-Provence (2009-12). My work considers the intricacies of cultural and commercial exchanges between Mediterranean Europe and the Middle East through a series of topics derived from my interest in identity manipulation, mixed networks, and legal relations.

Recently published essays consider legal attitudes towards the Franks adopted by late Medieval Islamic societies and the emergence of new ones under the Ottomans.

I am the author of Pouvoir et finance en Méditerranée pré-moderne : le deuxième Etat mamelouk et le commerce des épices (1389-1517) (Barcelona, CSIC, 2009). Deriving from my current interest in legal history and cross-confessional relations, a second book, entitled Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets has been published in 2020 by Brill Publishers.

I am currently developing a research project on the Arab involvement in South and Southeast Asia during the late Mamluk era and drafting a handbook on Islam and Global History (600-1600), stemming from the four-year experience of my Master's course on the topic.

I am currently teaching courses on Islamic History (undergraduate) and master's courses on Islam and Global History, and on Digital Humanities (second term 2024-5). I am interested in supervising Masters's and PhD theses on aspects related to the Social, economic, and cultural history of Arab countries, cross-cultural trade, and the history of justice and legal relations.


Employment (8)

Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale: Napoli, Campania, IT
2018-11-01 to present | Researcher (RTDA) (Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo)

Harvard University: Florence, IT
2017-09-01 to 2018-08-31 | Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow (Villa I Tatti)

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne: Paris, Île-de-France, FR
2014-09-01 to 2016-08-31 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Projet Mediterranean Reconfigurations (ConfigMed), Postdoctoral Researcher ERC Advanced Grant n° 295868, Directed by Prof. Wolfgang Kaiser)

European University Institute Department of History and Civilization: Florence, Toscana, IT
2012-09-01 to 2014-08-31 | Marie Curie Fellow

Aix-Marseille Université: Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR
2009-09-01 to 2012-08-31 | Lecturer (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et Recherche) (Département des Etudes Moyen-Orientales)

Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología: Rome, Rome, IT
2008-01-01 to 2009-08-31 | Post-doctoral fellow (Ecole Française de Rome / Università Roma - Sapienza)

European University Institute Department of History and Civilization: Florence, Toscana, IT
2004-01-01 to 2007-12-31 | Research Assistant

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo: Madrid, ES
1999-09-01 to 2000-06-30 | Restructuring of the Arab periodicals collection - Arab periodicals Catalog (data entry) - Help and Reference desk (Civil Service) (Islamic Library)



Education and qualifications (3)

European University Institute: Fiesole, Toscana, IT
2006-09-25 to present | PhD (History and Civilization)

Escuela Oficial de Idiomas: Madrid, ES
1999-12-02 to present | Proficiency Arabic - Fifth year (Certificado de aptitud del ciclo superior del primer nivel en el idioma árabe)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ES
1992-09-01 to 1997-06-31 | Licenciatura en Geografia e Historia (Facultad de Geografia e Historia)


Funding (6)

Malacca to Antwerp: Michiel Foscari’s global network (1482-1506)
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (MA, MA)
2017-06 to 2018-06|Grant
GRANT_NUMBER: 80006910485

MEDALEX—Cooperating in Complex Environments: Cross-cultural Trade, Commercial Networks and Notarial Culture in Alexandria (Egypt) : 1360-1450
Research Executive Agency (Brussels)
2012-09 to 2014-08|Contract
GRANT_NUMBER: 298333
URL: https://www.up2europe.eu/european/projects/cooperating-in-complex-environments-cross-cultural-trade-commercial-networks-and-notarial-culture-in-alexandria-egypt-1360-1450_22139.html

Western Merchant Communities in Mamluk Alexandria (1360-1520): Mobility and Identity in the Mediterranean
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Ecole Française de Rome (MAE grant)
2008-01 to 2009-08|Grant
GRANT_NUMBER: 20596

Notaires Vénitiens au Moyen Orient (1360-1500) Commerce et civilisation en ‎Méditerranée
European University Institute (Florence)
2004-01 to 2007-12|Contract
GRANT_NUMBER: 14/02/2005


‎PhD dissertation: Pouvoir et finance en Méditerranée pré-moderne : le deuxième Etat mamelouk et le ‎commerce des épices (1389-1517), advisor : Anthony Molho (EUI)
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación (Madrid)
2000-09 to 2015-08|Grant
GRANT_NUMBER: 16340

Research Grant for studies in Syria
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (Madrid)
1998-10 to 1999-08|Grant
GRANT_NUMBER: 12785


Works

• Authored Books

- Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets,
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020, 331 p. Open access : https://brill.com/view/title/39184

Review Journal of Early Modern History 25: Issue 1-2 (2021), Archivio Veneto, 22 (2021)

- Pouvoir et finance en Méditerranée pré-moderne : Le deuxième état mamelouk et le ‎commerce des épices (1389-1517), Barcelona, CSIC, 2009, 304 p.

Reviews: Mediterranean Historical Review 25:1, 93-6, Speculum 86 (3):723-725, Deustchen Archiv Bd. 67, S. 829-30

• Articles

- "The Crusader kingdoms, an archival crossroads", Al-Qanṭara, testo accettato per la pubblicazione in data 9 Aprile 2024

- (Book Review) Francisco Apellániz (2021) Piracy and law in the Ottoman Mediterranean, by Joshua White, Mediterranean Historical Review, 36:2, 288-292, doi:10.1080/09518967.2021.1976992

- article “Karimi” the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition, forthcoming 2025

- “A Mamluk-Venetian Memorandum on Asian Trade, AD 1503”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 32/3, July 2022, 557-80, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1356186321000535

- « “You cannot produce a Muslim witness”: Early Ottoman Attitudes Towards Proof and Religious Difference », Quaderni Storici, 153/3 (2016), 633-648

- “Judging the Franks: Proof, Justice, and Diversity in Late Medieval Alexandria and Damascus”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 58/2 (2016): 350–378

- "Florentine Networks in the Middle East in the Early Renaissance", Mediterranean Historical Review 30:2 (2015), 125-145

- " Venetian Trading Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean ", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 44:2 (2013), 157-179

-"Banquiers, diplomates et pouvoir sultanien: une affaire d'épices sous les Mamelouks circassiens"‎, Annales Islamologiques / Hawliyat Islamiyah, 38 (2004), 285-304‎

‎• ‎Chapters in books

- “An Unknown Minority Between the dār al-ḥarb and the dār al-Islām” in : Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb, Territories, People, Identities, Edited by G. Calasso and G. Lancioni, Studies in Islamic Law and Society series, n.40, Brill, 2017, 159-181
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- "The funduqs of Damascus seen by Frankish notaries and merchants" in: Travel in the Middle Ages, M. Sureda (ed), Barcelona, IEMed, 2015, p. 65-71 / 266-270 (bilingual edition Catalan-English)

- "Alexandrie, l’évolution d’une ville-port (1360-1450) " in : Alexandrie médiévale 4 - édité par C. Décobert, J.-Y. Empereur et C. Picard, Alexandrie, CEAlex, 2011, p. 195-212

- "Collaboration des réseaux marchands à Alexandrie (XIVe-XVe siècles) ", in : From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Anthony Molho, Florence, Leo. S. Olshki, 2009, 581-601

- "Vasallo Del Rey, Mercader del Sultán. La Carrera De Galip Ripoll / Ghalib Ibn Rufa’il"
in : Un Mar De Leyes. La Expansión Catalana en el Mediterráneo: De Jaime I a Lepanto, Catalogue de l’exposition, Barcelone, IEMED, 2009, 147-155
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- "Crise financière et rapports internationaux: la faillite des corporations européennes dans le ‎Sultanat mamelouk (1450-1517)", ‎‎ Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini" Atti della XXXVIII Settimana di Studi, ‎Relazioni Economiche tra Europa e Mondo Islamico. Secoli XIII-XVIII (2007), 623-641‎