English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that…
Category: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Kharita dispatching On 2 Ramadan 1316 AH/ 15 January 1899, Amir Abdul Rahman Khan of Afghanistan (r. 1880–1901), sent an…
Events such as the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria have brought Middle Eastern Christians into the public…
How did Abū Naṣr Yehuda, a Jewish landowner from 11th-century Bāmiyān, conduct his business affairs with his Muslim neighbors? What…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you may not know about the history of Muslims in Central Asia
By Galina M. Yemelianova 1) There are both narrow and broad notions of Central Asia. The narrow one relates to…
Since 2005, blogging has become a significant trend amid Egyptian young people. Among the many blog entries published online every…
As it enters its second year of publication, Warwick Ball reflects on the emerging themes and (accidental) article pairings in…
When we first thought about translating The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide by Hussein Ahmad Amin, it was not just because the book…
The temptation to look longingly to idealised visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militant communal solidarity associated…
An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…