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MADELINE GRIMM | Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire,

THOMAS HARRISON | The vastness of the human sea of feelings is what first inspires this literary journey,

JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book

HASAN HAMEED | Griffel’s strategy is simple. The best evidence demonstrating that philosophy did not die after Ghazali

MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Wollstonecraft can be a serious feminist interlocutor without being a feminist saint.

CYRUS ALI ZAGAR | Few premodern Sufi authors will inspire the sense of excitement that ʿAyn al-Quḍāt can. A prodigy from western Iran

Avery Robinson In 1895, Adolf Ágai wrote an article in the Jewish weekly Egyenlőség (Equality) in which he waxes rhapsodic about Jewish...

RUSHAIN ABBASI | So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity to

ISABEL TORAL-NIEHOFF | The emergence of Arabic history-writing in early Islam is a complex phenomenon.

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The fields of rabbinics and ancient Judaism have long asked a tantalizing question.

FREDERICK BEISER | Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is a portrait of the early romantic circle in Jena from 1794 to 1806.

EVAN KUEHN | If you want to draw a simplistic historical analogy that emphasizes the sheer evil of a person, there is one obvious choice