By Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper In 1971 and 1972 Richard Tapper and I lived with Afghan villagers for nearly a year. The…
Category: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
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…
When I first proposed to write about the Persians in Egypt, in a seminar at the University of Michigan, my…
From recycling to creating huge anthologies, Konrad HIrschler looks at some innovative ways that book lovers created their medieval Arabic manuscripts.
International Relations
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.
By David Gutman In April 1906, a man appeared at the United States consulate in Sivas, a city located deep…