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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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An exterior view of a church building facing a street.

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

A group of Muslim women stand amongst the rubble of destroyed buildings

Demystifying the role of Ottoman bureaucrats in occupied Western Anatolia at the dawn of ethnic violence and destruction

Umit Eser explores authoritarianism in post-Ottoman geographies by investigating the origins of organised violence and ethnic cleansings at the beginning of the twentieth century

Edinburgh University Press
October 15, 2024

Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

Burying the Millet System: A New Understanding of the Ottoman Arrangements with Non-Muslims

Demystifying the role of Ottoman bureaucrats in occupied Western Anatolia at the dawn of ethnic violence and destruction

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