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Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World: Q&A with the author

by Maijastina Kahlos Tell us a bit about Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World My book […]

February 3, 2026
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Mawlawi complex, tomb of Rumi, Konya, Turkey, photo John Renard

Rumi – A Life in Pictures

In this interview, John Renard, author of Rumi: A Life in Pictures (out now from the Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art series), discusses his new book, which studies illustrated 16th-century Ottoman manuscripts of a major hagiography of Rumi and his…

Helena Heald
August 18, 2021

Blood and Vellum: Manuscripts and Materiality in a Pandemic

By Bryony Coombs In March 2020 I was working in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, conducting research on a fifteenth century manuscript, a Latin chronicle of Scottish history. This was fortuitous timing, as one week later the UK entered a…

Teri Williams
July 2, 2021

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World: Q&A with the author

Rumi – A Life in Pictures

Blood and Vellum: Manuscripts and Materiality in a Pandemic

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World: Q&A with the author

We’re going all in for the National Year of Reading

Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural History

A polyglot writer weaves carpets: A conversation about linguistic hybridity with Sabira Ståhlberg

Autopoietic Machines