By the time I encountered Marie de l’Incarnation and the gripping story of her decision to abandon her eleven-year-old son…
Motherhood on the hinge
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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…
Teaching with The Immanent Frame
How have you used The Immanent Frame in your teaching? What has worked, for which students and classes, and why?
Love in dark times
Bouteldja’s “we” is resolutely impure, as is the “you” she addresses. And because it is impure, it is political. It…
Conversion to Islam as religious and racial crossing
Due to the specific history of Islam in Western societies, the border that converts go over by becoming Muslim is…