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The authors estimate income inequality in the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Empire. They find that the Han Empire was, overall, more unequal and extractive than the Roman Empire, with the respectiv...

At Hartford International, you’ll join an interfaith peer group and professors who broaden your perspective and, in turn, deepen your ability to make a difference in a world where the roads no longer ...

Dear Colleagues, we have drafted a letter addressing the removal of Cemal Kafadar and Rosie Bsheer from the leadership of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Please review the letter below an...

Viabundus Finland 1350–1650, database and GIS-location project of Late Medieval and Early Modern roads in Finland. Homepages.

By Ezieddin Elmahjub Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, is poised to revolutionize how we approach and interact with Islamic jur…

However, for me, the most precious of all the manuscripts in my library were the six stories I wrote in Israeli jail. These were the first stories I ever wrote, penned during a few months of incarceration following my participation in the First Intifada in 1992. I wasn’t quite 19 when I wrote those stories. I “published” them by hanging them on the wall of the prison.

An NYU professor who has frequently taught this Iraqi novel finds that two months into Trump 2.0, its significance has shifted considerably.

Merchant diasporas have significantly influenced local and interregional processes in world history, but archaeology is only starting to understand th…

Cambridge Core - Global History - Islamicate Environments

Wed, Mar 5 2025, 12 - 1:15pm | Chris Halsted (GLC Visiting Scholar) The spread of Slavic identity within early medieval Rus’ remains poorly understood, with most models privileging some manner of expl...

The history of the plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, is marked by some of the most devastating pandemics. Its arrival in Brazil on the turn of the 19-20th century led to significant public health cha...

This series presents the integrated study of the Afro-Eurasian “Old World”, in its formative millennium between ca. 500 and ca. 1500. After the end of the

OP-ED. American researcher Jason K. Stearns condemns inaction on the part of Western countries in the face of the offensive by M23 rebels and Rwandan forces in the east of the Democratic Republic of C...

Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.

A classic essay by Virginia Woolf from The Yale Review's archives: "At this late hour of the world’s history, books are to be found in almost every room…

The ‘Genetics Turn’ in Disease History, Avar Migration, Greek Fish Addictions & More

A look at land, and life, on Lebanon's frontlines.

Abstract. Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper ex

"The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries" published on 27 Jan 2025 by Brill.

In August 2024, Jordan became the first country to officially eliminate leprosy.1 Countries participating in the World Health Organization (WHO)2 have committed not simply to bringing percentages o…

JANUARY 8, 2025 — Organizers today announced that the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation has been awarded to Katharine Halls for her “masterclass” of …