Fragile Fragments: Marina Rustow unpacks daily life in medieval Egypt
Documents hidden for centuries in a Cairo synagogue storeroom help Rustow piece together the past. Continue Reading →
Category: Near Eastern Studies
Islam in Pakistan: A History
Author: Muhammad Qasim Zaman, the Robert H. Niehaus ’77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion Publisher: Princeton University Press, May 2018 The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan Continue Reading →
MARINA RUSTOW, historian of the medieval Middle East, wins MacArthur Fellowship
Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and professor of Near Eastern studies and history, has been awarded a 2015 MacArthur Fellowship. Rustow is among 24 scientists, artists, Continue Reading →
Found in translation: Scholar locates source of 18th-century Quran
In a London archive, Alexander Bevilacqua found it: a medieval copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran. Its aging pages, Bevilacqua knew, contained the original source for a highly influential 18th-century English translation of Continue Reading →
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