Book reviews investigation

Updated 9 September: The editors regret to report that the following book reviews submitted to al-Masāq by Spyridon Panagopoulos were plagiarised without citation or other acknowledgement. The retracted book reviews will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.

We sincerely apologise to the authors of the original reviews.

The editors continue to investigate other book reviews published by this author in al-Masāq.


Review of Alex Mallett, Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097-1291, 32.i (2020)

Review of Samuel Noble and Alexander Treiger, The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700), 31.iii (2019) 

Review of Alexander D. Beihammer, Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130, 31.ii (2019)

Review of Jace Stuckey (ed.), The Eastern Mediterranean frontier of Latin Christendom, 31.i (2019)

Review of Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis, and Peter Lock (eds), A Companion to Latin Greece, 30.i (2018)

Review of Stefan Burkhardt, Mediterranes Kaisertum und imperiale Ordnung. Das lateinische Kaiserreich von Konstantinopel, (Europa im Mittelalter. Abhandlungen und Beiträge zur historischen Komparatistik, 25), 29.iii (2017)

Review of Leslie Brubaker & Shaun Tougher (eds), Approaches to the Byzantine Family, 29.ii (2016)