Publications by Faculty and Emeriti of the School of Historical Studies
Publications
Faculty and Emeriti of the School of Historical Studies -
Recent books and major articles:
2024
Jonathan Haslam, Hubris: The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine (Bloomsbury, Harvard University Press, 2024).
Patrick Geary et. al., "The role of emerging elites in the formation and development of communities after the fall of the Roman Empire," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (36), 2024.
Myles Jackson, Broadcasting Fidelity: German Radio and Early Electronic Music, Princeton University Press, 2024.
Sabine Schmidtke, Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and Wissenschaft des Judentums: Reconstructing His Scholarly Biography, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024 (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Iinstituts; 86).
George A. Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Literary Snippets: A Colophon Reader, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2024.
Hans-Jürgen Becker, Kinga Dévényi, Sebastian Günther, Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Building Bridges: Ignaz Goldziher and His Correspondents. Islamic and Jewish Studies aroung the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Leiden: Brill, 2024 (Islamic History and Civilization; 212).
Omer Michaelis and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond, Leiden: Brill, 2024 (Islamic History and Civilization; 205.1 and 2).
2023
Microstoria e storia globale (Officina Libraria, 2023), by Francesca Trivellato, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
George A. Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Literary Snippets: Colophons across Space and Time, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2023.
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, The Beginnings of Shīʿī Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Cornelis van Arendonk, and Eugenio Griffini, 1910 through 1926, Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society Press, 2023 (Transations of the American Philosophical Society; volume 112, part 1)
Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Emotionen und Fiktionen. Gefühle in Politik, Gesellschaft und Religion der griechischen Antike, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2023.
2022
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, German Orientalism in Times of Turmoil: The Kahle-Strothmann Correspondence (1933 through 1938, 1945 through 1950), Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University Chair for Arabic Studies & Csoma de Kőrös Society Section of Islamic Studies, 2022 (The Arabist: Budapest Studies in Arabic; 23)
Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022 (Gorgias Handbooks; 49)
Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke, Al-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā's Oeuvre and Thought in Context: An Archaeological Inquiry into Texts and their Transmissions. Part I: Study, Part II: Illustrations, Cordoba: UCOPress, 2022 (Arabo-Islamica; 4)
Herausforderungen und Gefahren der Integration von Genomdaten in die Erforschung der frühmittelalterlichen Geschichte, Das Mittelalterliche Jahrtausend Vol. 7 Berlin (Wallterstein Verlag, 2021), by Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies.
“Ancient genomes reveal origin and rapid trans-Eurasian migration of 7th century Avar elites” Cell (April 1, 2022), by Patrick Geary, et. al., Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies.
2021
Solidaridad Bajo Asedio: El Movimiento Obrero Salvadoreño entre el Cielo y el Infierno, 1970-1990, (Mexico City: UNAM 2021), by Jeffrey L. Gould, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights (University of Washington Press, 2021), by Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus, Modern European History, the School of Historical Studies.
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II (Princeton University Press, 2021), by Jonathan Haslam, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Unveiling Emotions III. Arousal, Display, and Performance of Emotions in the Greek World, (Stuttgart: Steiner 2021), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
征服的時代：從亞歷山大到哈德良的希臘世界 (Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian), (Taipei: Marco Polo Press 2021), by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, translated into Chinese by Huang Kaijun.
2020
Entre el Bosque y Los Arboles: Utopías Menores en El Salvador y Uruguay, (Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, 2020), by Jeffrey L. Gould, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World: Volume 8 (2020): Issue 2-3 (Jul 2020): Special Issue: The Arabic Literary Genizot beyond Denominational Borders—Part 1 Edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Shii Studies Review: Volume 4 (2020): Issue 1-2 (Jun 2020) Edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions (2020) Edited by George Anton Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020) Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke and Jan Thiele (eds).
Writing in My Own Script: Allographic and Garshunographic Systems in Late Antiquity. Part Two = Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 8 i (2020) [Leiden: Brill], edited by George A. Kiraz, Senior Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies, and Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies
Эпоха завоеваний (Age of Conquests) (Alpina Non-Fiction: Moscow 2020), by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, translated by Vladislav Fedyushin.
2019
Solidarity Under Siege, The El Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970-1990, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019, by Jeffrey L. Gould, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume LXV (Brill, 2019), edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, et alii.
Writing in My Own Script: Allographic and Garshunographic Systems in Late Antiquity. Part One = Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 7 ii-iii (2019) [Leiden: Brill] , edited by George A. Kiraz, Senior Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies, and Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies
Die Öffnung der Welt: Eine Globalgeschichte des Hellenismus (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt 2019) by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, translated by Martin Hallmansecker.
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies (Lockwood Press, 2019) by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Camilla Adang.
The Zaydi Reception of Bahshamite Muʿtazilism. Fascimile Edition of MS Shiraz, Library of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Shiraz (ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī Library), majmūʿa 102 (Gorgias Press, 2019) prepared for publication and introduced by Hassan Ansari, Long-term Member in the School of Historical Studies, and Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Sacrilegio y redención en la Florencia del Renacimiento: El caso de Antonio Rinaldeschi (Universitat de València Publications, 2019) by Giles Constable, Professor Emeritus, Medieval History, School of Historical Studies, and William J. Connell, 2002-2003 Member in the School of Historical Studies.
2018
La era de las conquistas. El mundo griego de Alejandro a Adriano (336 a.C.-138 d.C.) (Pasado y Presente, Barcelona, 2018) by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, translated by David León Gómez
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum LXIV (Leiden: Brill, 2018) co-edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, with T. Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, and Eftychia Stavrianopoulou.
Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library, Arabic Manuscripts Collections, Volume 51985A (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018) prepared for publication and introduced by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018 (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018) by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915-2016) and His Personal Library (Cordoba: UCOPress, 2018 [Series Arabo-Islamica; 1]) by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
La nuit: imaginaire et réalités nocturnes dans le monde gréco-romain (Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2018) edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
“The Business History of the Preindustrial World: Towards a Comparative Historical Analysis" in Business History, 60, no. 5 (2018), by Oscar Gelderblom and Francesca Trivellato, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
"Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics" in Nature Communications, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2018, pp.1 -11 by Patrick Geary, et. al., Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi (Forough Publishing, 2018) by Giles Constable, Professor Emeritus, Medieval History, School of Historical Studies, and William J. Connell, 2002-2003 Member in the School of Historical Studies.
Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan (University of Chicago Press, 2018) edited by Michael van Walt van Praag (2011-2015 Visiting Professorin the School of Historical Studies), Timothy Brook (2017-2018 Member, Historical Studies), and Miek Boltjes.
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Michael Mass, Rice University and 2000-2001 Member in the School of Historical Studies.
Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (Harvard University Press, 2018) by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
2017
Histories of Books in the Islamicate World. Part II = Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 5.1 (2017) [Leiden: Brill], edited by Maribel Fierro, Member in the School of Historical Studies 1994-1995, Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Sarah Stroumsa (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions (Lockwood Press, 2017) by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Hassan Ansari, Long-term Member in the School of Historical Studies.
"A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC-200 AD" (Onassis Foundation USA, 2017) edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
"Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum LXIII" (Brill, 2017) edited by Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
"The Crucible of Islam," (Harvard University Press, 2017), by G. W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus, Ancient History, School of Historical Studies.
“In the Humanities Classroom: A Set of Case Studies,” Common Knowledge 23:1 (2017), pp. 57-103, edited by Caroline W. Bynum, Professor Emerita, European Medieval History, School of Historical Studies.
2016
Desencuentros y Desafíos: Ensayos Sobre la Historia Contemporánea Centroamericana, (San José: Editorial de CIHAC, 2016), by Jeffrey L. Gould, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Zaydī theology in 7th/13th century Yemen: Facsimile edition of Kitāb al-Maḥaǧǧa al-bayḍā fī uṣūl al-dīn of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī (d. 667/1269) (MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. arab. 1286). Introduction and Indices by Hassan Ansari, Long-Term Member in the School of Historical Studies and Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies. Tehran: Mīrāth-i maktūb, 2016 (Classical Muslim Heritage Series; 9) [republished Leiden: Brill, 2019 (ebook), isbn: 978-90-04-40666-7]
Zaydī theology in 7th/13th century Yemen: Facsimile edition of Kitāb al-Maḥaǧǧa al-bayḍā fī uṣūl al-dīn of ʿAbd Allāh b. Zayd al-ʿAnsī (d. 667/1269) (MS Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. arab. 1286). Introduction and Indices by Hassan Ansari, Long-Term Member in the School of Historical Studies and Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies. Tehran: Mīrāth-i maktūb, 2016 (Classical Muslim Heritage Series; 9) [republished Leiden: Brill, 2019 (ebook), isbn: 978-90-04-40666-7]. Faylusūf-i yahūdī-yi Baghdādī: Ibn Kammūna wa āthār-i u, trans. Jawad Qasemi, revised by Hamid Ataei Nazari, Isfahan: Daftar-i tablīghāt-i islāmi: Shuʿba-yi ustān-i Iṣfahān, 2016 (Majmūʿa-yi muṭālaʿāt-i īrānī-islāmī; 2)
The Religious and Intellectual History of Rayy from 900 through the Seljuq Period = Der Islam 93.2 (2016) [Berlin: de Gruyter], edited by Hassan Ansari, Long-Term Member in the School of Historical Studies, Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and D. G. Tor, Member in the School of Historical Studies 2013-2014
“Are Things 'Indifferent'? How Objects Change Our Understanding of Religious History,” German History: The Journal of the German History Society 34:1 (2016), pp. 88-112, by Caroline W. Bynum, Professor Emerita, European Medieval History, School of Historical Studies.
"The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy", (Oxford University Press, 2016), edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb, Harvard University and 2008-2009 Member in the School of Historical Studies, and Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
"Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn ʿAbbād Promoter of Rational TheologyTwo Muʿtazilī kalām texts from the Cairo Geniza" (Brill, 2016), edited by Wilferd Madelung, University of Oxford and 2010-2011 Member in the School of Historical Studies, Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2016), edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr (Brill, 2016), edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad (Brill, 2016), coauthored by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies. This a new edition of the title by Schmidtke and Pourjavady originally published by Brill in 2006.
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (Brill, 2016) edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
Matisse in the Barnes Foundation (Thames & Hudson, 2016), edited by Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters (Brill, 2016) by Patricia Crone, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies.
The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Brill, 2016) by Patricia Crone, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies.
Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness (Brill, 2016) by Patricia Crone, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies.
2015
“‘Crowned with Many Crowns’: Nuns and Their Statues in Late Medieval Wienhausen,” The Catholic Historical Review 101:1 (Centennial Issue 2015), pp. 18-40, by Caroline W. Bynum, Professor Emerita, European Medieval History, School of Historical Studies.
“The Discourse of Herrschaft and the Practice of Herrschaft in the Fifth Century,” Medieval Worlds: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies vol. 1 (2015), Approaches to Comparison in Medieval Studies, pp. 5-15, by Patrick J. Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
“Jacques Le Goff Chez les médiévistes aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne,” in Jacques Revel and Jean-Claude Schmitt, eds. Un autre histoire: Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014) Éditions EHESS(Paris : 2015), pp. 131-137, by Patrick J. Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.
2014
Manufacturing a Past for the Present : Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Brill 2014), edited by Patrick J. Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies.