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Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq
JESSICA MUTTER | Who is an Arab?...
Aug 31, 2018
All Eyes on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian for our Troubled Time
JAVIER GARCIA | One figure who has proven particularly resilient to the challenge of academic justification is Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
Aug 31, 2018
Gay Rights Comes to Africa?
RACHEL C. SCHNEIDER | Over the last decade, countless news stories, focusing on the difficult situation of LGBTQI people in Africa...
Aug 17, 2018
How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
DAN GROSSMAN | Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news?...
Aug 17, 2018
Collective Enthusiasm and the Cautious Scholar: The Birmingham Qur’ān
ALBA FEDELI | In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham University”...
Aug 3, 2018
Culturally Muslim in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
ABIGAIL AGRESTA | What does it mean to be Muslim?...
Aug 3, 2018
Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
DANIEL A. HIRSHBERG | Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled the great Tang...
Aug 3, 2018
Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
NILS H. KORSVOLL | Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to discovering...
Jul 20, 2018
The Staffordshire Hoard and the Distance of the Past
SAMUEL COLLINS | Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news...
Jul 20, 2018
(Still) Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
NICOLA DENZEY LEWIS | The find story of the Nag Hammadi codices is well known to anyone who works in the field of Gnosticism...
Jul 6, 2018
Like a Bride: The Qur’an and Arabic Prose
KEVIN BLANKINSHIP | As with most religions, disputing the nature of Islam is a practice nearly as old as Islam itself...
Jul 6, 2018
“Property of a gentleman”: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance
ROBERTA MAZZA | I am a papyrologist...
Jul 6, 2018
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