Books

Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has authored The Crucible of Islam (Harvard University Press, 2017), which seeks to illuminate the most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islam—from the mid...

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has authored Al-Sāhib Ibn ʿAbbād Promoter of Rational Theology (Brill, 2016), which contains critical editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Būyi...

Presses Sciences Po has published Les défis de la République. Genre, territoires, citoyenneté, coedited by Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science. The book explores the changing face of The Republic—changes including...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has authored Punir: Une Passion Contemporaine (Seuil, 2017), an exploration of punishment from a genealogical and ethnographic perspective. In this book, Fassin engages...

Arnold J. Levine, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences' Simons Center for Systems Biology, has edited The p53 Protein: From Cell Regulation to Cancer (Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine) 1st Edition (Cold Spring Harbor...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has authored Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (Polity, 2016). The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has...

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has edited The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2016), which provides a deep view of the issues, concepts, and arguments that are at stake within the...

Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside...

The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters (Brill, 2016) by Patricia Crone, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, is the first piece in the Collected Studies in Three Volumes, a compilation of a number of her published, unpublished...

The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands (Brill, 2016) by Patricia Crone, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, is part of the author's Collected Studies in Three Volumes, a compilation of a number of her...