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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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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.

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…

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