-
EUP75: Our Publishing in Law
Read more: EUP75: Our Publishing in LawDiscover the story of Law at Edinburgh University Press – the first publications, the books that changed the field and what you can expect to see in future
![](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Featured-image-Andreeva-768x402.jpg)
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Q&A with the author
![Princess Diana walking along a muddy mindfield and wearing body armour and a visor](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HALO-Trust-Feature-Image-1-768x402.jpg)
Mine Games: Humanitarian Mine Action and The HALO Trust
by Angus Mitchell In January 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, undertook a trip to Angola on behalf of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Her mission: to highlight the plight of landmine victims. With an entourage of photographers, journalists,…
![A black and white image of a large museum gallery full of people](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/British-Museum-Unsplash-768x402.jpg)
Lost Property at the British Museum
by Sarah Keenan It’s easy to get lost at the British Museum. The expansive central London building, set out over three floors and divided up into over 60 galleries, displays some 80,000 objects from all over the world. The British…
![A picture of the manuscript leaf of the Throne Verse from the Quran. The colour of the letters is black and with a few red signs, the colour of the paper is light beige and there is a thick vertical dark beige line along a thinner, bluer line on both sides of the text.](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Teaching-the-Quran-Featured-Image.png)
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…
![Detail of miniature from a manuscripts of the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din that shows the besieged city of Mashhad al-Dai (Eastern Iran) in 998 CE. Three horseman are shown riding out of the city, about to engage the aggressors who are also riding horses. All of them are armed.](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/download-768x306.png)
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…
![](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/i-5-90707516-hospital-design.webp)
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:…
![A picture of Baghdad](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Baghdad-1.jpg)
Writing about the People of Iraq
by Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani 23 March 2023 marked the twentieth anniversary of the attack on Iraq. Predictably, western mainstream media made little or no reference to contemporary Iraqi culture. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in…
![Photo credit: Library of Congress](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/A-street-scene-in-Old-Cairo.-1934.-768x580.jpg)
The Egyptian Social Contract – Q&A With The Author
by Relli Shechter Tell us a bit about your book The Egyptian Social Contract discusses the long-term history of the social contract in Egypt since partial independence from the British (1922) and until the Arab Uprising (2011). It focuses on…
![](https://euppublishingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Dzenita-Karic-picture-scaled-768x558.jpg)
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…