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Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.

September 25, 2025
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Photograph of ruins in the Nagorno-Karabakh region as a result of the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict

A forgotten rivalry in the Caucasus: 30 years of Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict

Laurence Broers writes on the 30-year Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict: one of the most embittered territorial disputes in the world.

Zuzana IHNATOVA
December 4, 2019

cover detail from Evolution Before Darwin

Henry H. Cheek

Bill Jenkins introduces us to the short life and tragic death of Henry H. Cheek, a pre-Darwinian evolutionist. At the University of Edinburgh In many popular accounts of the theory of evolution the reader could be forgiven for coming away…

Anna Glazier
December 3, 2019