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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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Reading Joyce

2022 marks a hundred years since Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s novel Ulysses in full. What better time to think about reading Joyce? A hundred years of readers and readings! Of course, that’s not the whole picture. Ulysses is also…

Kirsty Crosbie
October 20, 2022

Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

Reading Joyce

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