Position:

Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / St Cross College

Email:

donald.richards@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• The history and historiography of the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods

Recent Publications:

• The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, translation of Ibn Shaddad, Ashgate, 2001
• The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period, parts 1 and 2, Ashgate, 2006-7

Forthcoming:

• The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period, part 3, Ashgate, 2008.