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Q&A with Chibli Mallat, author of Democracy Redefined
Read more: Q&A with Chibli Mallat, author of Democracy RedefinedChibli Mallat introduces 'Democracy Redefined' and explores the Lebanese Constitution's history and its unique approach to democracy.

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 she will immediately notice a few patterns: Most of the major studies focus on the Classical period (that is, from…

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 have made the country a site of international intervention by medical experts. Indeed, it was the fifth international cholera epidemic…

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 Kevin L. Schwartz. Remembering Iran, Forgetting the Persianate There was a time – roughly from 1000 to 1850 – when…

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 history of the relationship between Christians and Muslims – A History of Christian-Muslim Relations by Hugh Goddard. Twenty years ago…

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 up of people of various ages, ethnicities and social classes. But what they have in common is that they identify…

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 professor laughed. She laughed because it was a well-known fact among Egyptologists that there was little evidence for this period…

Three fun ways to create a medieval Arabic manuscript
From recycling to creating huge anthologies, Konrad HIrschler looks at some innovative ways that book lovers created their medieval Arabic manuscripts.

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.

A story of Armenian migration to North America
By David Gutman In April 1906, a man appeared at the United States consulate in Sivas, a city located deep in the Anatolian interior in what is today central Turkey. In fluent English, the man identified himself as Ohannes Topalian,…