Why did the modern economy emerge in northwestern Europe at some point in the 17th or 18th century but not in the Middle East?

Smiley examines the emergence of rules of warfare surrounding captivity and slavery in the context of Ottoman-Russian military rivalry between 1700 and 1878....

Moussawi challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm...

The book focuses on the intersection of racecraft around Muslims and imperial projects of domination by gathering committed scholars and activists to reflect on how we’ve gotten here and how we can move forward...

Freitag offers a rich urban and biographical history of Jeddah...

Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."

Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...

Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.

The edited volume is not only an at times ethnographic dive into Middle Eastern sports’ multiple facets but also in many ways a mapping of how much remains to be explored....

Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...

Alpers offers a concise yet an immensely informative introduction to the Indian Ocean world, which remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions...

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....