Emotions penetrate every aspect of our lives. Interwoven with
memory, attention, cognition, and decision-making, they determine
our interpersonal relations, our private life, the public sphere,
and religious worship. Emotions are the background of...
Reducing the intellectually rich and diverse Islamic literary
heritage to a bare minimum of what is seen as allegedly authentic
is a strategy that is characteristic of Wahhabism, Salafism, and
jihadism and their respective proponents. Whatever goes...
As Alastair Hamilton stated in 2008 in The Forbidden Fruit:
The Koran in Early Modern Europe, “few books were as feared
and coveted, as abhorred and desired, as the Qurʾān in early modern
Europe.” Religious polemics, trading activities, and...
One rarely finds [a eunuch] who has, like him, an open
forehead, a well-made nose, large, clear eyes, a small mouth, rosy
lips, dazzlingly white teeth, a neck of exact proportion without
wrinkles, handsome arms and legs, all the rest of his
body...
In this video, Columba
Stewart, George William Cottrell, Jr. Member (2016–17) in the
School of Historical Studies, a Benedictine monk, and Executive
Director of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, explains how a
Benedictine monastery in Minnesota...
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...
Latin America’s move in recent decades to greater levels of
democracy and economic development are undermined by weak
institutions, corruption, and the lure of populism. While it is a
zone of peace with no international hostilities or
significant...
In this video, Robert
E. Lerner, Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern
University and former Member in the School of Historical Studies,
draws upon his recently published biography of Ernst Kantorowicz to tell the
story of a major...
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...
In this public lecture, Bill Browder, Founder and Chief
Executive Officer of Hermitage Capital Management, gives a
firsthand critical analysis of the Russian economy–—particularly
the absence of the rule of law–—with insights derived from
his...
