It is not whether Europe is Christian or not that matters. What matters is who is asking the question and…
Questions of power and privilege in Europe’s relationship with Christianity
history
Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19
I am curious about how people turned to the gods historically, the discursive modes permissible for doing so in 2020,…
Irredeemable enemies
Representation of the non-Western Islamist fighter has long had to deal with the Eurocentric and asymmetrical nature of international relations.…
Motherhood on the hinge
By the time I encountered Marie de l’Incarnation and the gripping story of her decision to abandon her eleven-year-old son…
Canon fodder
In this short reflection I will suggest that Viganò’s offhand remark shows us a deep truth about the legal culture…
A conversation with Yuri Slezkine
As the final installment of the Fall 2018 book forum on The House of Government, forum co-curators Sonja Luehrmann and…
A religious revolution?
As a historian—not a scholar of religion—specialized in Hungarian, Italian, and German history, I cannot say much about Yuri Slezkine’s…
On continuity and rupture: A reply to Elshakry and Quadri
By pulling at different threads of the book’s argument, Elshakry and Quadri expose a basic tension between the book’s emphasis…
Rethinking the history of the astral sciences in modern Egypt with The Lighthouse and the Observatory
How the history of science can inform histories of the modern Middle East (and vice versa) is precisely what The…
Science and the soul—An introduction
“Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics” offers a unique forum not merely for review or commentary on…