The five essays in this collection explore how the Crusades continue to serve as a powerful historical symbol within Far-Right extremism. This influence is evident in acts of terrorism, political…

Offering a fresh look at the origins and development of Arabic poetry, this book argues that pre-Islamic poetry reflected regional identities and that later Islamic scholars favoured a specific style…

Your gift to the Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation will help sustain programs that benefit animals in so many ways. From emergency rescue to life-saving medical care and adoption programs, you...

Yasmin Amin explores the Qur'anic term al-insān al-kāmil and its application to both men and women in an Arabic-language lecture on 9 January at 16:30pm BST.

Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period (defined r...

The textbook for Zrinka Stahuljak’s winter 2025 course is generated by the Kudu platform.

Jokha Alharthi was born in 1978 and educated in Oman and the UK. Her first novel, Celestial Bodies, translated into English by Marilyn Booth, received the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Words Wi...

Historicizing Experiences Seventh Annual Conference March 10-12, 2025 Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences Tampere University, Finland

Join Rachel Schine, Assistant Professor of Arabic and History at the University of Maryland, and Kristina Richardson, Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at ...

A new version of KITAB’s text reuse data is now available to download at Zenodo, an Open Science platform that supports Open Access. The current release features 1,641,766 CSV files of pairwise (book-...