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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

BERNARD E. POWERS JR | The spring and summer months of 2022 marked two-hundred years

PHILIP BALL | Space science is a long game. NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to send a small spacecraft to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche 2

BARBARA SOSTAITA | Felipe Hinojosa’s Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio

DANIEL WOOLF | Time has been the subject of intensive study across humanistic, social-scientific, and hard-science disciplines for a century

JULIE MELL | Absent Jews is a rare book. It delves into modern history in order to reconsider medieval history.