Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has coauthored, with Camilla
Adang, Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts
and Studies (Lockwood Press, 2019).
The articles brought together in this volume deal with...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has prepared for publication and
introduced Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism
in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public
Library, Arabic...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has authored Traditional Yemeni
Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad
b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915-2016) and His Personal
Library (UCOPress...
Who wrote the Torah? In light of more than two hundred years of
scholarship and of the ongoing disputes on that question,[1] the most
precise answer to this question still is: We don’t know. The
tradition claims it was Moses, but the Torah itself...
The emergence of Judaism is closely intertwined with the
emergence of Samaritanism. Both are heirs of ancient Israelite
traditions, and the predecessors of both shared the same religious
and literary culture. Until the second century B.C.E., this...
Western—European and North American—historiography generally
portrays the years between the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the
Congress of Vienna in 1815 as having given birth to the modern
world—a republican world founded on rational discourse and...
In his award-winning novel Life of Pi, published in 2001, the
French-Canadian writer Yann Martel relates the fantastic adventure
of a boy from India who survives a shipwreck and spends 227 days in
the Pacific Ocean, sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has edited Studying the Near
and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
1935–2018 (Gorgias Press, 2018). The volume traces the history
of Near and Middle Eastern...
Most scholarship on Ottoman art takes the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries as their focus, the glorious periods of the
building of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, the well-known domed
mosques of the architect Sinan, the Iznik pottery, the
floral...
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...
