Publications

Forthcoming

Grant, Alasdair. "Between Greek Revolution and Jamaican Rebellion: Thomas Gordon as Philhellene and Slave Owner", in M. Sotiropoulos (ed.). Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History (Abingdon: Routledge).

 

Grant, Alasdair. “Captives, Slaves, and Latin Categories of Greekness”, in N. Gaul, M. Carr & Y. Stouraitis (eds.). The Post-1204 Byzantine World: New Directions and Novel Approaches. Papers Read at the 51^st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Edinburgh, 13–15 April 2018, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, publication expected in 2026.

Grant, Alasdair. "A Probably Spurious Crusading Letter of 1441 to John II of Cyprus (Vat. lat. 10688)", in G. Christ (ed.). Commerce and Crusade: The Mamluk Empire and Cyprus in a Euro-Mediterranean Perspective (Leuven: Peeters), publication expected in 2026.

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena with Teresa Bernheimer (eds). ‘Re-Assessing Khārijism’, thematic dossier, BSOAS.  

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena with Antonia Bosanquet (eds). Approaching Pre-Modern Islamicate History, 600-1200 CE: Sources and Methods, London: Routledge (expected late 2027/early 2028).

 Hagemann, Hannah-Lena with Alasdair C. Grant (eds). ‘How Rebellion Ends’, Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, thematic dossier, vols 5/2 (2026) + 6/2 (2027).

 

Grant, Alasdair with D. Penna (eds). Oaths in Long Late Antiquity (Groningen: University of Groningen Press) [Open Access, expected 2026].

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. ‘Arabic Sources, 600-1000’, in Antonia Bosanquet und Hannah-Lena Hagemann (eds). Approaching Pre-Modern Islamicate History, 600-1200 CE: Sources and Methods, London: Routledge (expected late 2027/early 2028).

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena with Ersilia Francesca. ‘Khārijite and Ibāḍī Group Formation in the Early Islamic Period’, in Philip Wood (ed.). Group Formation in the Abbasid Caliphate, London: British Academy (expected 2027).

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. ‘“Do (Not) Pray Behind the Innovators”: Ritual Prayer, Political Allegiance, and Community Formation in Early Islam’, in Michael Wuk (ed.). Beyond Church and State: Frameworks of Ritualised Identification in Long Late Antiquity, Turnhout: Brepols (expected 2027).

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. ‘Kharāj and Khurūj: Khārijites and the Question of “Rebel Taxation” in Early Islam’, in Marie Legendre et al., (eds). Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th-10th Century), Leiden: Brill (expected 2027).

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. ‘Introduction: Fiscal Revolt’, in Marie Legendre et al., (eds) Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th-10th Century), Leiden: Brill (expected 2027).

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. ‘Conflict Resolution in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate World’, Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies 5/2 (2026).

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. ‘Al-Ḥasan b. Sahl, d. 850’, in Kate Fleet et al. (eds). Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, Online-Zugriff über https://referenceworks.brill.com/ .  

 

Grant, Alasdair, Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Natalie Kontny-Wendt. ‘Oaths in Early Islamic Political Culture: bayʿa, amān, and ṣulḥ’, in Alasdair C. Grant und Daphne Penna (eds). Oaths in Long Late Antiquity, Groningen: Groningen University Press (expected 2026).

 

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Slavery and Ethnicity in the Byzantine Commonwealth’, special issue tbc, ed. T. Ertl and C. Mauder.

Grant, Alasdair. ‘The Church How Militant? Christian Clergy and Conflict Mediation in the Early Islamic Empire’, special issue on ‘How Rebellion Ends’, co-edited with H.-L. Hagemann, Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies 6/2 (2027).

 

Grant, Alasdair. ‘The Cold War Legacy: Marxist Readings of Early Islamic Taxation’, in M. Legendre, N. Lucas and E. Scheerlinck (eds). Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th–10th Century) (Leiden: Brill).

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Fiscal Revolts in Caliphal Armenia, 650–900’, in M. Legendre, N. Lucas and E. Scheerlinck (eds). Handbook of Fiscal History in the Early Islamic World (7th–10th Century) (Leiden: Brill).

Grant, Alasdair with N. S. M. Matheou. ‘Land and Lordship at the Edge of Empire: The Transition to a Medieval Economy in South Caucasia, c.450–850’, in M. Eisenberg, R. Naismith and P. Tedesco (eds). Our Daily Bread: The Making of Medieval Economies in Western Eurasia (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Grant, Alasdair with N. S. M. Matheou. ‘Fiscal Regimes, Lordship and Territory: The Formation of a Provincial Armenian Elitedom in the Caliphal North, c.650–c.950’, in P. Wood (ed.). Group Formation in the Abbasid World, 750–1000 (Liverpool: British Academy).

Grant, Alasdair. ‘The Arab Conquests and the Evolution of Armenian Elites, 640–884: A Quantitative Study’, in E. Böhme (ed.). Power Elites during Changes of Rulership and Religion: Transcultural Perspectives (c. 500–1600).

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Loyalty Oaths in the Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamicate Legal Spheres’, in A. C. Grant and D. Penna (eds). Oaths in Long Late Antiquity (Groningen: University of Groningen Press) [Open Access].

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Do Mountains Come First? Experiencing and Perceiving Geography in Caliphal Armenia’, in R. Szill and J. Stellmann (eds). Natura & ceTERRA: Zur Ästhetik von Naturorten im Mittelalter (Berlin: De Gruyter).

 

  

2025  

Grant, Alasdair with H.-L. Hagemann (eds). Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) [Open Access].

 

Grant, Alasdair. ‘The Greek Revolution, Thomas Gordon and the Aberdeen Committee’, Northern Scotland 16, S. 117–35.

 

Grant, Alasdair with T. Greenwood, K. Hagan, L. Pecorini Goodall and L. Read. ‘A Neglected Armenian Source of the Late Umayyad Era: The Martyrdom of Vahan of Gołt‘n’, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 33, pp. 30–106 [Open Access].

 

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Taxation, rebellion and withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia, 754–775 CE/136–158 AH’, in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds). Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 1–22 [Open Access].

Grant, Alasdair With H.-L. Hagemann. ‘Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World’, in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds). Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 1–22 [Open Access].

 

Grant, Alasdair. Review: D. G. Tor and A. D. Beihammer (eds). The Islamic–Byzantine Border in History: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Crusades (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 36, pp. 297–300.

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Research Note. Edward Masson: A Scot in the Greek Revolutionary Navy, 1827’, International Journal of Scottish Studies 50, pp. 167–72.

Grant, Alasdair.  ‘Vergessene Unfreiheit: Mittelalterliche Sklaverei als transatlantische Geschichte’, in M. Latif (ed.), Facetten der Freiheit – Perspektiven auf ein Grundrecht (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder), pp. 137–44.

 

 

2024  

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. "Poet, Scholar, Rebel? ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703), Khārijite Revolt and the 'Playbook of Rebellion' in the Umayyad Period", in H.-L. Hagemann and A. Grant (eds.), Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 95-118.

 

H.-L. Hagemann and A. Grant (eds.). Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena and A. Grant. "Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World", in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds). Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 1-22.

 

Grant, Alasdair. "Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia, 754–775 CE/136–158 AH", in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds). Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 167-190.

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. “al-Nāṭiq bi-l-Ḥaqq, Mūsā b. Muḥammad”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three.

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. “Naṣr b. Shabath al-ʿUqaylī”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three.

 

Dar, Alon. "Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the Jund of Tunis (793–4)", in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds.). Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 217-238.

 

Kontny-Wendt, Natalie. "The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743): Bayʿa, Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period", in H.-L. Hagemann and A. C. Grant (eds). Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 73-94.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) [Open Access].

Reviewed by: J. Latham-Sprinkle, Journal of Global Slavery 10 (2025), pp. 297–9; D. Penna, American Historical Review 130 (2025), pp. 1752–3; J. Schiel, The Byzantine Review 8 (2026), pp. 1–4; J. Wilskman, Al-Masāq 37 (2025), pp. 283–5.

 

Grant, Alasdair. "Thomas Gordon and the Ghost of Tripolitsa: A Study in Private Conflict and Public Relations", in R. Beaton and N. Gaul (eds). The Greek Revolution of 1821: European Contexts, Scottish Connections (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 250–74.

 

  

2023

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. “‘The Caliph Calls You to the Book of God’: Writing to Rebels in the Early Islamic Period”, The Medieval Globe 9/2, pp. 7–29.

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. “Limits of Empire: The Jazīran North before the 10th Century CE”, Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies 2.1-2 , pp. 12–58.

 

Grant, Alasdair. "Gottlose Korsaren. Erzählungen aus der spätmittelalterlichen Ägäis", in R. Hank, H. Leppin and M. Plumpe (eds). »Alle, die mit uns auf Kaperfahrt fahren«: Piratengeschichten auf den Meeren der Welt (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag), pp. 49–72.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Review of W. St Clair, Who Saved the Parthenon? A New History of the Acropolis before, during and after the Greek Revolution (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers), in Historische Zeitschrift 316, pp. 685–6.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Review of S. B. Dadoyan, Islam in Armenian Literary Culture: Texts, Contexts, Dynamics (Leuven: Peeters, 2021), in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 34, pp. 193–4.

 

 

2022

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. “Was Muṭarrif b. al-Mughīra al-Thaqafī a Khārijite? Rebellion in the Early Marwānid Period”, al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30, pp. 445–468.

 

Grant, Alasdair with M. Carr. “The Catalan Company as a military diasporic group in medieval Greece and Asia Minor”, in G. Christ, P. Sänger & M. Carr (eds.). Military Diasporas: Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE–1500 CE), Abingdon & New York: Routledge, pp. 176–93.

 

Grant, Alasdair. “Scotland’s  ‘vagabonding Greekes’, 1453–1688”, Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies 46, pp. 81–97 [Open Access].

 

Dar, Alon. "Governors and Provincial Elites in Umayyad Egypt: A Case Study of One 'Rebellion' (709–10 CE)", al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30, pp. 500–15. 

 

Dar, Alon and Sijpesteijn, Petra M.. "Introduction: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate", al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30, pp. 435–44.

 

 

2021

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

 

Grant, Alasdair. “The Scottish Ladies Society for Promoting Education in Greece: Philanthropy and empire in the ‘Athens of the North’”, History Scotland (Nov./Dec. 2021), pp. 42–4.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Review of D. Valérian, Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2019), in Al-Masāq 33, pp. 352–4.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Review of T. Sinclair, Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas–Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2019), in Al-Masāq 33, pp. 89–92.

 

Grant, Alasdair with N. Gaul, I. G. Brown & R. Beaton, Edina/Athena: The Greek Revolution and the Athens of the North, 1821–2021, Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh [Open Access].

 

 Kontny-Wendt, Natalie. "Arabo-Islamic geographies: Indian Ocean trade in Ibn Khurradādhbih's Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-mamālik (fl. 884 CE)”, in Hagit Nol (ed.), Long-Distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology Series, 4) (Turnhout: Brepols), 37–66.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Exhibition Catalogue: with N. Gaul, I. G. Brown and R. Beaton, Edina/Athena: The Greek Revolution and the Athens of the North, 1821–2021 (Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh) [Open Access].

Grant, Alasdair. CD Booklet: ‘Ronald Center and his string quartets’, Ronald Center: Chamber and Instrumental Music, Volume Two: Complete String Quartets [TOCC 0533] (London: Toccata Classics).

2020

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena with Stefan Heidemann (eds.). Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire, Berlin: De Gruyter.

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena with Peter Verkinderen. “Kharijism in the Umayyad Period”, in Andrew Marsham, ed., The Umayyad World, London: Routledge, pp. 489–517.

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. “Muslim Elites in the Early Islamic Jazīra: The qāḍīs of Ḥarrān, al-Raqqa, and al-Mawṣil”, in Hannah-Lena Hagemann & Stefan Heidemann (eds.). Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 331–358.

 

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena with Katharina Mewes & Peter Verkinderen. “Studying Elites in Early Islamic History”, in Hannah-Lena Hagemann & Stefan Heidemann (eds.). Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 17–44.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Review of H. Barker, That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260–1500 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), in Al-Masāq 32, pp. 357–60.

 

 

2019

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Byzantium’s ashes and the bones of St Nicholas: Two translations as turning points, 1087–1100’, in M. Kinloch and A. MacFarlane (eds), Trends and Turning-Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World (Leiden: Brill), pp. 247–65.

 

Grant, Alasdair. Review: G. Scalia (ed.), A. Bartola (comm.) and M. Guardo (trans.), Enrico Pisano: Liber Maiorichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2017), in The English Historical Review 134, pp. 957–9.

 

 

2018

Grant, Alasdair. ‘The Mongol invasions between epistolography and prophecy: The case of the letter “Ad flagellum”, c.1235/6–1338’, Traditio 73, pp. 117–77.

 

 

2016

Grant, Alasdair. ‘Pisan perspectives: The Carmen in victoriam and holy war, c.1000–1150’, The English Historical Review 131, pp. 983–1009.