Patrick Wing Ph.D.

Patrick Wing teaches courses on the history of the Middle East and Central Asia, as well as world history and international relations. He also serves as director of the Proudian Interdisciplinary Honors Program. His research examines the period of the Mongol Empire and the relationships between the Mongols and their neighbors in the Middle East.

• Ph.D., Near Eastern languages and civilizations, University of Chicago
• M.A., Middle Eastern studies, University of Chicago
• B.A., history, College of New Jersey

• Professor, University of Redlands

• Wing, Patrick. The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
• “The Chinggisid Legacy in the Middle East.” In The Mongol World, edited by Timothy May and Michael Hope, 923–935. London: Routledge, 2022.
• “The Syrian Commercial Elite and Mamluk State-Building in the Fifteenth Century.” In Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West Asia, edited by Jo Van Steenbergen, 306–318. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
• “Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Sultan Ahmad Jalayir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate.” In Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroad for Embassies, edited by Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche, 363–377. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
• “The Red Sea in the Medieval Period.” In The Sea in History: The Medieval World, edited by Michel Balard, 695–700. London: Boydell and Brewer, 2017.
• “Submission, Defiance, and the Rules of Politics on the Mamluk Sultanate’s Anatolian Frontier.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, series 3, 25 (2015): 377–388.