Shunned by Arab states for much of its existence, Israel has become in recent years a key factor in efforts by Gulf states to punch above their weigh...

Wynn offers an interrogation of urban life and gendered mobilities in Cairo, Egypt..

Levi reflects on recent scholarship to identify multiple causal factors that contributed to the Bukharan crisis of the 18th century...

Rahmaninejad's memoir provides a fascinating glimpse into the political and artistic life of Iran...

Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...

Modest fashion is a growing, global multi-billion-dollar market...

Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?

The canonization of what counted as “classical” was itself a markedly modern move and gesture, El-Shamsy argues...

Harb offers a delightful and formidable study on the details and development of poetics and aesthetics in medieval Arabic literature...

One of these movements, Socialist Lebanon, took root in the 1960s, and much Arab political thought has developed in its shadow ever since.,,

Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....

Reynolds argues that contrary to many scholarly and popular claims about the God of the Qur’an as either merciful or vengeful, God is in fact both...

We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. Scott asks us to question this belief.

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Kurd’s rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing...

Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the interplay between Israeli nationalism and Jewish tradition, arriving at a fresh understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its focus on internal questions about Israeli identity...

Gualtieri uncovers the dynamic and complex stories of Arabic-speaking migrant communities who came to call Southern California home...

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief...

Rüstem takes a stab of a slice of that history, arguing that we should see the eighteenth-century Baroque period in Ottoman mosque architecture as innovative and not derivative...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Dursteler describes the early modern Mediterranean world, its arrangement and political issues, and its changes in the wake of the Battle of Lepanto (1571)...

Gruber demonstrates that there is long rich history of images of Muhammad from within the Islamic tradition...

Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...

Rahemtullah offers a compelling comparative analysis of the works of four Muslim scholars of Islam – Asghar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas...