Biography is a dangerous genre for any historian. Inevitably it has to be set in the history of the subject’s…
Category: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
To celebrate the release of Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies, editors Simon…
The past years have seen many commemorations in the Israeli–Arab conflict: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration (2017), seventy years…
Series Editor Ramon Harvey introduces our latest Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies series, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology….
By Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper In 1971 and 1972 Richard Tapper and I lived with Afghan villagers for nearly a year. The…
If anyone decided to do a quick search for scholarship on interreligious polemics, especially of the Muslim-Christian kind, he or…
By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that…
Read the blog post to find out more about writing the newly published book Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 by…
Read on to explore the details behind writing the first and second edition of the fascinating study looking at the…
Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made…