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THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE AGES
Ten years after Muḥammad’s death in 632, Arabic warriors kept together by the new creed he had established had conquered Egypt, Syria (both from the...
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Development of the Philippine Islamic Courts
This chapter attempts to describe the consolidation of the Islamic court in the archipelago, from the fanciful description of Urduja of Tawalisi to...
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Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship
This chapter looks at German scholarship of Islamic law in Africa and shows how it systematically elided local Muslim jurisprudence. Whereas...
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The 1978–1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran
The fall of Muhammad Riza Shah Pahlavi’s monarchy in Iran in February 1979 was one of the major political events of modern history. The Islamic...
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Mainstreaming “Islamic Danger”: Scholars, Missionaries, and Colonial Surveillance
This chapter traces how the initial reaction to the “Mecca letter” gradually congealed into a more sustained policy of surveilling and regulating...
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Water Provision in Early Islamic Cities: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Urban Water Governance
The need to supply water to the cities of early Islam, and share the collective resource between different urban users, created a fundamental...
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History as Legitimacy
Historical narratives are interwoven in all categories of secular claims to territory. Nevertheless, “history” merits separate attention since it has...
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From Indian History to the History of Civilisations
The final decade of Panikkar’s life was a period of intense intellectual revision, in the context of growing concerns for Indian unity and foreign...
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Lovers of the Rose: Islamic Affect and the Politics of Commemoration in Turkish Museal Display
This chapter explores Turkish museal display as an arena for memory-cultural Islamisation, extending beyond the walls of museums. It probes museums...
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Slavery in Islamic West Africa
This chapter examines the issues of enslavement, slavery, and pathways to freedom in the nineteenth-century West African states established through...
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Imagination and History Converge: The Danites in the Middle Ages
During the Middle Ages people identifying themselves as Danites, that is, members of the tribe of Dan, periodically appeared in the Jewish diaspora,...
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A New Utopian Dimension in Arabic/Islamic Tradition: Cosmopolitan Vision of the Future in Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World
This chapter examines Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World (1977), arguing that his text illuminates a new cosmopolitan view of utopia,...
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From Western to Islamic World: The Transformation of Nicosia’s Cultural Identity
This chapter addresses the politics of street-naming in the early years of British rule with reference to the late Ottoman period, examining...
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Islamic Legacy in Medieval Iberian Societies: Building Rules
By considering the building regulations of medieval Christian societies of the Iberian Peninsula with the ones contained in Islamic sources from...
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An Islamic Afro-Eurasian Empire: The Ottomans (1299–1923)
The Ottoman Empire, one of the world’s longest enduring empires and the largest of the pre-modern Muslim Empires, survived more than six centuries...
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In Partibus Fidelium (Postscript: Conversion as History)
The history of religions is a restive discipline. And while this is true for every scientific discipline that deserves to be so called, the one that...
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Art, War, and Empire: A History
From its foundation, modern Russian identity was defined by warfare. The imperial period, indeed, began with Russia’s victory over Sweden in the...
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Rav Hai Gaon’s Jurisprudential Monograph Kitāb Adab al-Qaḍā: A Reconstructed Text from the Cairo Genizah
This essay presents the discovery of a previously almost entirely unknown treatise written in Judeo-Arabic by Rav Hai b. Sherira Gaon. This...
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Slavery and Religion: From Anti-Islamic Abolitionism to Christian Serfdom
This chapter studies the German debate of East African slavery and examines its relation to colonial images of Islam as well as to the call for...
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History, Memory, and the Populist Right in Germany from the Second World War to the Present Day
The right-wing populistspopulism assembled in the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have been actively pursuing a memory and history politic that...