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A conversation with Demet Çaltekin on ‘Conscientious Objection in Turkey’
Read moreby Demet Aslı Çaltekin Can you tell us a bit about Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the…
Why has the EU been so obsessed with the Israeli–Arab conflict?
The past years have seen many commemorations in the Israeli–Arab conflict: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration (2017), seventy years…
Introducing Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology
Series Editor Ramon Harvey introduces our latest Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies series, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology.…
My First Day in Camp with the Piruzai – Afghanistan, 1971
By Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper In 1971 and 1972 Richard Tapper and I lived with Afghan villagers for nearly a year. The…
Interreligious Polemics as a Window into Early Modern Iran
If anyone decided to do a quick search for scholarship on interreligious polemics, especially of the Muslim-Christian kind, he or…
Health Service Provision Challenges in 19th-century Afghanistan and Now
By Namatullah Kadrie The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest of many public health crises that have struck Afghanistan—and that…
Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900
Read the blog post to find out more about writing the newly published book Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 by…
Christians and Muslims: Friends or Foes?
Read on to explore the details behind writing the first and second edition of the fascinating study looking at the…
Scottish Muslims: Unity and Belonging
Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made…
How to Find Persians in Egypt: The Archaeology of Achaemenid Egypt
When I first proposed to write about the Persians in Egypt, in a seminar at the University of Michigan, my…