Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, and Hassan Ansari, Member in the
School, have coauthored Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual
Traditions (Lockwood Press, 2017), which focuses on aspects of
Islamic thought in Iran...
As recent events have demonstrated, one of the most significant
phenomena of the Arab World’s modern history is the persistence and
resilience of undemocratic government. Syria has enjoyed the
dubious distinction of leadership in this respect, its...
An arcane topic to most people, Syriac sources help shed a more
complex light on the history of the Middle East from late antiquity
to the Middle Ages. They reveal a non-imperial epoch and its rich
contributions to the cultural and religious history...
We are probably all familiar with the
AncestryDNA advertisement for its genetic testing service in
which a man states that he and his family had always thought that
they were German. He goes on to explain that he danced in a German
dance group and...
Monotheism constitutes one of the central doctrines of
Islam. The notion is again and again voiced in the Qurʾān,
thus for example in sūra 112 (entitled “Sincere Religion”)
which, in the translation of Arthur Arberry, reads “Say: ‘He is
God, One (ah...
To outsiders, the contentiousness, divisiveness, and downright
un-neighborliness evident in the small Spanish town of Deza by the
autumn of 1607 might well have seemed a tempest in a teapot. Those
living in the newer Upper Neighborhood had been...
In this Friends Talk held at the Institute on October 13, 2017,
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies,
explores the world heritage of Islamic literature and the efforts
to salvage the manuscripts of the Zaydi community in...
Giles Constable, Professor
Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has authored
Medieval Thought and Historiography (Routledge, 2017),
examining how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes
they struck. This collection of studies...
Giles Constable, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical
Studies, has authored Medieval Monasticism (Routledge,
2017), a collection of his key articles on medieval monastic and
ecclesiastical history, which provides a comprehensive view
of...
Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies,
has co-authored Fred Sandback: Vertical Constructions(David Swirner Books, 2017), a comprehensive
survey of a seminal body of work that helped make Fred Sandback
into the...
