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Book Talk: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought
Lindner Lecture in Art History
Talk by Marcus Milwright Feb 6 2025
Workshop with Robert Travers
White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language
Maya Boutaghou
UVA Press (2024)
Well-Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
Tessa Farmer
John Hopkins University Press (2023)
Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem: The Lamentations Commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim
Jessica Andruss
Oxford University Press (2023)
Sirens of Modernity
Samhita Sunya
University of California Press (2022)
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Kristina Richardson
I.B. Tauris (2022)
The Unsettled Plain
Christopher Richard Gratien
Stanford University Press (2022)
Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
Oludamini Ogunnaike
Penn State University Press (2021)
Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Amanda Phillips
University of California Press (2021)
New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine
Caroline R. Kahlenberg
Cambridge University Press (2020)
Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
Shankar Ayillath Nair
University of California Press (2020)
The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives
Nizar Hermes
Edinburgh University Press (2018)
The Creation of Philosophical Tradition
Ahmed H. al-Rahim
Verlag Publishers: Harrassowitz (2018)
The Swahili World
Adria LaViolette
Routledge Worlds (2018)
A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950
Fahad Bishara
Cambridge University Press (2017)
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State
Noah Salomon
Princeton University Press (2016)
Everyday Luxuries: Art and Objects in Ottoman Constantinople, 1600-1800
Amanda Phillips
Berlin State Museums (2016)
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World
Kristina Richardson
Edinburgh University Press (2014)
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Nizar Hermes
Palgrave-Macmillan (2012)
By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria. Ithaca
Jennifer Sessions
Cornell University Press (2011)
Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya
Cynthia H. Hoehler-Fatton
Oxford University Press (1996)