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When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s

Jim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.

February 18, 2025
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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.

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…

Edinburgh University Press
August 10, 2023

When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s

How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition

When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s

Q&A with the author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry

Catastrophic Technology: Perspectives on the end of the world

He Stuttered: A Letter from Gilles Deleuze

A parcel of rogues in a nation? Twenty-five years of the Scottish Parliament