Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.
by Valérie Hayaert Animated by signs that are in essence mutable, Justitia (Lady Justice) may be perceived as an allegory in motion. Scholars who pretend to master the intricacies of this “science of images” (iconology) forget an important fact: allegories…
Having won the Penny Pether Prize for his book Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene, author Daniel Matthews joined series editor William MacNeil for a discussion on the book. They discuss how Matthew’s theory of language informed his…