The 'History of the kings of the Persians' in three Arabic chronicles the transmission of the Iranian past from Late Antiquity to early Islam translated with introduction and notes by Robert G.

We in the West do need better understanding of Islamic history and culture. For almost three-quarters of a millennium, from the early 700s until the middle 1400s, the Muslim Middle East excelled ...

In fact, during the early history of Islam, the Agreement of Hudaibiyah between Muhammad and his rivals stipulated that any Muslim who converted out of Islam would be allowed to depart freely to ...

This promises to be a classic.' Professor Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh and British Academy" "̀Charting the rise and demise of the angular scripts used in the first centuries of Islam, ...

Michael O’Sullivan, Paper Currency, Banking, and Islamic Monetary Debates in Late Ottoman and Early Saudi Arabia, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 63, No. 3 (2020), pp.

This article examines the early 1970s’ political thought of the Lebanese intellectual Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh (d. 2010), a prominent returning cleric from Iraq, intervening in discussions on the ...