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KEVIN BLANKINSHIP | As with most religions, disputing the nature of Islam is a practice nearly as old as Islam itself...

JOSHUA MUGLER | Over the past few years, the Christians of the Middle East and their relationship with their Muslim neighbors have been...

ROBERT DANNIN | Twenty-five years ago I undertook similar research, and I felt like an usher prowling the aisles of a darkened theater...

ARAFAT RAZZAQUE | In 1961, nearly two decades before the stir of Edward Said’s Orientalism, the renowned Oxford medievalist...

STEVEN ZHOU | On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street...

SOHAIB I. KHAN | Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject of best-selling books...

NATHAN HOFER | One of the more difficult tasks facing historians of early Sufism is to disentangle its development as an identifiable...

LAMIN SANNEH | The many attempts to explain what went wrong with the Muslim world, with its outbreaks of violent extremism against...

PHILIPPE BORNET | What is the common denominator between distinguished Oxbridge Orientalists, a German Christian missionary...

JOSEPH LOWRY |Historical understanding is never achieved from an unsituated vantage point...

PETER GOTTSCHALK | In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form

SAJJAD RIZVI | We use categories and concepts in order to communicate something to our peers, about our objects of inquiry and ideas