Hend Gilli-Elewy

Dr. Hend Gilli-Elewy is a Professor in the History Department at Cal Poly Pomona, after having previously served as the Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the College of Education and Integrative Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research and scholarly interests include social, historical, and religious aspects of the early and medieval Islamic World, the Mongol Ilkhanids, slavery in Islam, and the history of Baghdad and Iraq. Her publications include: “Baghdad under the Late Abbasid Califs,” Baghdad: From its Beginnings to the 14^th Century,  ed. Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Leiden, Brill, 2022; “Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambitions and Ideologies during the 13^th and 14^th centuries,” Mamluk Cairo: A crossroads for emissaries, Leiden, Brill, 2018; “On Women, Power, and Politics during the Last Phase of the Ilkhanate,” Arabica 59:6 (2012); “The Mongol court in Baghdad: The Juwayni brothers between local court and central court,” Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to nineteenth centuries, ed. A. Fuess and J.P. Hartung, London, N.Y., 2011;  “Al-Hawadith al-Jami‘a: a Contemporary Account on the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad, 656/1258,” Arabica 58 (2011); Bagdad nach dem Fall des Kalifats. Die Geschichte einer ilkhanischen Provinz (1258-1335), Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2000.