How did Abū Naṣr Yehuda, a Jewish landowner from 11th-century Bāmiyān, conduct his business affairs with his Muslim neighbors? What…
Category: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
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…
It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…