Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
Category: Religious History
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…
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Judging a book by its cover: Designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…
By Michael Nathanson The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, i.e., impasse over land ownership of the former mandatory Palestine, is rooted in and…
British History
Review of Stephan E. C. Wendehorst’s book British Jewry, Zionism and the Jewish State, 1936–1956
The history of twentieth century British-Jews, Stephan E. C. Wenderhorst’s book shows, offers valuable insights to the understanding of British…
The April 2015 issue of Studies in World Christianity is largely based on a handful of the many papers presented…