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  • Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

    Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.

    September 25, 2025
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Burying the Millet System: A New Understanding of the Ottoman Arrangements with Non-Muslims

Masayuki Ueno re-evaluates how the Ottoman Empire managed religious minorities from the early days of the empire to the nineteenth century.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • May 8, 2025
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Towards a Promethean European Cosmo-politeia

Michail Theodosiadis explores what the European Union can learn from the transcendent values of the Byzantine Empire.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • March 28, 2025
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The Orange Order: A Global History

A Q&A with author Patrick Coleman on researching the Orange Order across 230 years and multiple continents.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 25, 2025
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A canonization that caused a diplomatic rift in Europe

Eduardo Ángel Cruz investigates the overlap between the political and the spiritual in canonizations of the Catholic Church

  • Edinburgh University Press
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How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • August 10, 2023
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Situating the crusades in Syrian history: a Q&A with James Wilson

Tell us a bit about your book My book is about the situation in Syria before, during and after the first crusaders arrived in the near east. The crusader armies arrived in Syria in 1097 and immediately began interacting with…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • July 31, 2023

Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914

by Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi How did patients feel when visiting mission hospitals built by British missionaries in Asia and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? I am preoccupied with this question in my book, Emotion, Mission, Architecture:…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • May 12, 2023
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Q&A with Leandro Losada on ‘Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World’

by Leandro Losada Tell us a bit about your book. Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World, 1880-1940 pursues two comparative approaches. One is the history of liberal and anti-liberal political thinking. The other is the reception of Machiavelli’s works in…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 12, 2023

Writing from the margins: Bosnian Hajjis’ understanding of the world

by Dženita Karić As I was doing research on the Hajj discourses in Bosnia from the 16th to the 21st century, I encountered a range of texts, published and unpublished, in Bosnian, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish languages. Some of the…

  • Io Stefanidou
  • February 1, 2023
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