Books

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has edited The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2016), which provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the latest scholarship on the development...

Brill Academic Publishers has published Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr (2016), edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Camilla Adang, Hassan Ansari, and Maribel Fierro. The...

Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (Brill, 2016) edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, provides a forum for research that systematically crosses the boundaries between three major disciplines of...

A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad (Isfahan, 2016), coauthored by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, is a new edition of the title by Schmidtke and Pourjavady originally published by Brill in 2006. Newly translated by...

Thames & Hudson has published Matisse in the Barnes Foundation edited by Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies. The Barnes Foundation's Matisse collection, comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist’s career...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has coauthored Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives (Masterclass) (Hau, 2015), with Michael Lambek, Veena Das, and Webb Keane. Responding to the...

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., has published The Lod Mosaic: A Spectacular Roman Mosaic Floor (2015), edited by Glen W. Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, Gideon Avni, Amir Gorzalczany, Joshua Schwartz, and Rina Talgam...

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has authored Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture, Volume One, 1940–1953 (Editions Cahiers d’Art, 2015). Written in direct collaboration with the...

Jonathan Haslam, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has authored Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), which charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, Yasmine Bouagga, Isabelle Coutant, Jean-Sébastien Eideliman, Fabrice Fernandez, Nicolas Fischer, Carolina Kobelinsky, Chowra Makaremi, Sarah Mazouz, and Sébastien Roux...