In August's Fragment of the Month, Pratima Gopalakrishnan finds evidence for a Deccan merchant association in a Genizah document.

Pretty much everyone has heard about Marco Polo and his thirteenth-century journey from Italy to China. But just as the Polos were making their way east, two other intrepid travellers were making the ...

“The Story of the Judge and the Thief, a story about a trickster, was evidently very popular...”

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

Writing about Passover, Moses Maimonides (d. 1204), the leader of Egypt’s Jewish community and one of the foremost philosophers and theologians of

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible - Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

The Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies invite applications for the newly established Bita Daryabari Endowment Postdoctoral Scholar/Lecturer position...

“Propaganda of the Victims”: Atrocity Denial, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Disparagement of Assyrians in Middle East Studies

Annette Gordon-Reed with Brent Staples: Jefferson on Race in New York - Checkout. The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines Thomas Jefferson’s complicated and often contradictory views on race and...

A podcast about the Middle Ages (with an American twist), hosted by Professor Matthew Gabriele.

A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East

ALT: captain america says i understood that reference

Hello everyone! David’s new book, The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook, launches today! Here’s an excerpt, focusing on my modern medieval origin story,...

This one-day history festival brings London’s medieval Jewish community back to life, just steps away from the City’s original Jewish quarter.

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the

A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle East

It is a mitzvah to inform one's sons even though they do not ask, as [Exodus 13:8] states: "You shall tell your son."A1Though Exodus 13:14 states: "And it...

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History By Craig Perry  Princeton University Press, 368 pp.   Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the