Afanasii Nikitin: An Orthodox Russian’s Spiritual Voyage in the Dar al-Islam, 1468–1475
Nikitin departed from Tver’, Russia, in 1468 in hopes of trading furs in the north Caspian region. He traveled as part of a group of private Tver’ merchants who regularly ventured along established trade routes.
Islam and Europe — Sites of Conflict
Islam and Europe — Sites of Conflict Lecture by David Wasserstein 57 Minutes Given in 2008 at Vanderbilt University Why has the encounter between…
Women’s Property Rights in Islamic Law and the Debate over Islamic Economic Performance
Women’s Property Rights in Islamic Law and the Debate over Islamic Economic Performance By Maya Shatzmiller XIV International Economic History Congress (2006) Synopsis: Using court…
Muslim Responses to the Sanctity of the Temple Mount: Anti-Jewish and Christian Polemics
Muslim Responses to the Sanctity of the Temple Mount: Anti-Jewish and Christian Polemics By Jacob Lassner 45 Minutes Given at Northwestern University on…
Imagining the Prophet’s Life: The Reinterpretation of the Sīra in Visual Form In the Jāmi’ al-Tawārīkh of Rashīd al-Dīn
Imagining the Prophet’s Life: The Reinterpretation of the Sīra in Visual Form In the Jāmi’ al-Tawārīkh of Rashīd al-Dīn By Benjamin D. Cox Published online (2005)…
Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology
Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology By Corinne Blake Journal for MultiMedia History, Vol.1 (1998) Introduction: New types of information technology such as the…
Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World
Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World By Anthony Cutler Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-5949-5 In this third collection…
After Rome: Holy War and Conquest
After Rome: Holy War and Conquest This two-part series from the BBC examines the ‘clash of civilizations’ in the Middle Ages between Christendom…
Crusades with Terry Jones
The first two episodes concentrate on the First Crusade, while the remaining two look at Later Crusades and the gradual defeat of the Crusaders.
Franks’ Effect on Islamic Spirit, Religious and Cultural Characters in Medieval Syria
Franks’ Effect on Islamic Spirit, Religious and Cultural Characters in Medieval Syria By Hatim Mahamid Nebula, Vol.4:1 (2007) Introduction: This study will follow the phenomena…
Witnesses of God: Exhortatory Preachers in Medieval al-Andalus and the Magreb
Witnesses of God: Exhortatory Preachers in Medieval al-Andalus and the Magreb By Linda G. Jones Al-Qanṭara: Revista de Estudios Arabes, Vol.28:1 (2007) Abstract: This article analyzes…
The Islamic Origins Debate Goes Public
The Islamic Origins Debate Goes Public By Peter von Sivers History Compass, Vol.1 (2004) Abstract: A central part of modern secularization has been…
Figural representation in early Islamic Art
Figural representation in early Islamic Art By Mahmoud Sadek Transactions of the Third Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians (University of Western Ontario, 1985)…
The military orders and the conversion of Muslims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Although the relevance to conversion of charters which allude to the propagationor expansion of Christianity may be questioned, a very few twelfth- and early thirteenth-century sources do explicitly seek to link military orders with the convertingof Muslims.