Shafiq Jaser Ahmad Mahmoud
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Shafiq Jaser Ahmad Mahmoud is a contemporary historian and academic who served as an associate professor and head of the Department of History at the Islamic University of Madinah .
Academic Career and Research
Mahmoud earned his master's degree in 1974 from Ain Shams University by editing the first volume of al-I'lam bi-al-Hurub al-Waqi'a fi Sadr al-Islam by the Andalusian scholar al-Biyasi . He subsequently joined the faculty of the College of Da'wah and Usul al-Din at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he worked as an assistant professor, an associate professor in the Department of Islamic History, and served as the department's chair .
His historical research focused on early Islamic conquests, the Crusades, and the Mamluk era. In his monograph al-Mamalik al-Bahriyya wa-Qada'uhum 'ala al-Salibiyyin fi al-Sham ("The Bahri Mamluks and Their Defeat of the Crusaders in the Levant"), he addressed the rise of the Bahri Mamluks and their military role in checking the Mongol threat and ending the Crusader presence in the Levant . In al-Fath al-'Umari li-al-Quds Namudhaj li-al-Da'wa bi-al-'Amal wa-al-Qudwa ("The Conquest of Jerusalem by Umar as a Model of Calling through Action and Exemplarity"), he analyzed the historical conduct, justice, and moral example demonstrated during the conquest of Jerusalem under the caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab .
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This historical monograph examines the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem during the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab. It analyzes how the practical conduct, justice, and moral exemplarity of the early Muslims functioned as an active means of da'wah (calling to Islam).
This historical treatise examines the rise of the Bahri Mamluk sultanate and its military campaigns that brought an end to the Crusader presence in the Levant (al-Sham).