"Slavery in Islam" also offers a remarkable combination of intellectual and social history, anchored in layers of complex yet eminently accessible textual analysis...

An interview with Adam Talib

Seggerman analyzes Egypt’s modernist art movement from the late-nineteenth century up until the 1960s, demonstrating the interconnectedness of this movement with a constellation of artistic production outside of Egypt...

Sinanoglou asks what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Balint and Mack offer a fascinating journey through Jerusalem’s libraries which tells the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words...

Bet-Shlimon explores the vibrant and often troubled history of one of Iraq’s most diverse and oil-rich cities...

Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?

Spackman’s riveting study identifies a strand of what it calls “Accidental Orientalism” in narratives by Italians who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state...

Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...

Alavi surveys the history of the relationship between Iran – and especially the Islamic Republic of Iran - with Palestinian organisations and leadership...

What is the “medieval”? How can we understand historical movements across the Sahara? How does religion –specifically, Islam– play a role in this project?

What precisely is “Muslim theology?”

Bajoghli takes an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic...

Ali presents a detailed and fascinating account of Muslim feminist discourses and politics in modern Iraq...

Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...

Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction...

Matin-Asgari uncovers the intellectual “missing links” both within and without Iran concerning the formation of Iranian national identity...

Who are the Jews from Arab countries?

Sternfeld presents the first systematic study of the rich and variegated history of Jews in twentieth-century Iran...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?

Fuchs interrogates this framework with a novel intervention by examining the case of Shi’i Islamic intellectual thought in Pakistan as it relates to the Middle East....