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Taxing, trading and ruling in the early Islamic Jazira
What explains the cultural heterogeneity of the Jazira in the medieval period?
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The Formation of Islam
Volume One of The New Cambridge History of Islam, edited by Chase F. Robinson, surveys the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century.
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The Great Issues Forum: Immigration and Islam
What impact do Muslim immigrants and Islamic practices have on the societies they join? What unique challenges do Muslim immigrants face? In both America and Europe, which have welcomed greater numbers of Muslim immigrants than ever before, how is the …
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CUNY’s 50th Anniversary Celebration
Watch a video of CUNY’s 50th Anniversary Celebration. Speakers include Herman Bennett, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Uday Mehta, Jesse Prinz, David Sorkin, and Anne Stone.
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Understanding Middle Eastern Reactions to ‘Innocence of Muslims’
The YouTube video “Innocence of Muslims” can now be added to a lengthening list of portrayals of Muhammad that have led to violence, both threatened and real, along with calls for censorship. Examples include the Salman Rushdie affair, occasioned by …
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Today’s lecture: the good Muslim
Responding to the publication of Ataullah Siddiqui’s report on Islam at Universities in England last month, Bill Rammell, the Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, announced that Islamic studies at degree level was to be classified as a …
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A Humanities Crisis?
Should students considering a PhD in the humanities abandon all hope? Leaving aside the fact that talk of a ‘crisis’ in the humanities appears to be a perennial feature of the humanities, the data certainly cannot explain the apocalyptic rhetoric. …
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Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards
14 November on Books, IdeasThe volume brings together 17 articles by leading Islamicists and Arabicists, on a variety of topics in Mediaeval and Early Modern times, including the Qur'an Shi'ism, Abbasid historiography, the Crusaders,...
The Formation of Islam
14 November on Books, IdeasVolume One of The New Cambridge History of Islam, which surveys the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century, brings together contributions...
Oxford History of Historical Writing
13 November on Books, IdeasHow was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical...
Islamic Historiography
13 November on Books, IdeasChase Robinson's book is a timely introduction to Islamic historiography, from its origins in the seventh and eighth centuries to the fifteenth century. It covers the rise of the tradition,...
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