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Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history Winner of the …
The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition
Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi‘ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i …
History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate
Abu Bakr al-Suli was a noted polymath and table companion in the courts of three Abbasid caliphs. In addition to his work as observer of the court, he is perhaps best known for …
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam
In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa Gabbay examines episodes in pre-modern Islamic history in which …
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory …
Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World
In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily written by male authors, the erotic publications from this era …
The Eastern Frontier
Transoxania, Khurasan, and Tukharistan – which comprise large parts of today’s Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval …
Narrating Muslim Sicily
In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a …
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography
Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, …
Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World
In the ‘encyclopaedic’ fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids …
Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World
One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet many of these communities …