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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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Photograph of ruins in the Nagorno-Karabakh region as a result of the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict

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.

Zuzana IHNATOVA
December 4, 2019

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,…

Emma at EUP
September 5, 2019

Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

A forgotten rivalry in the Caucasus: 30 years of Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict

A story of Armenian migration to North America

Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

The Whitehead canon, version 2.0

Q&A with Paul du Plessis on Henry Maine’s Ancient Law

Violence in Brontë Afterlives

Cinema Without Borders: The Films of Paweł Pawlikowski