Gowaart Van Den Bossche

Gowaart Van Den Bossche is a postdoctoral assistant (Oberassistent) at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. Before taking up this position, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow funded by Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University, and as a postdoctoral fellow with the KITAB project at Aga Khan University–ISMC. He obtained a PhD degree from Ghent University in 2019 for a thesis on literary biographies of sultans in the early Mamluk sultanate. This thesis won the BRAIS-De Gruyter prize in 2020. His first book, Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt, was published by De Gruyter in 2023. He has published on historiography and intercommunal relations in the Mamluk period as well as on the manuscript tradition of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Safāʾ).