Historical Studies

While the burning of banned writings receives a great deal of attention into our days, the phenomenon of collecting these texts has only been gaining access to research for the last 20 years. Analogous to the exhibition and actions against...

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

This presentation will explore the nature of the Elijah traditions in rabbinic literature and their connection to the wisdom tradition. By...

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

For a political scientist, the contradictory themes surrounding the Arabs and their region before the coming of Islam often seem strange...

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

Maria Evangelatou, Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, at the University of California...

Björn Bentlage, Orientalisches Institut, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 

A rare find from the late Mamluk period offers new insights into the origins of a literary form and practice which, over the next centuries, would continue to...

The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program.

Christopher Clohessy, resident faculty member of Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), and visiting lecturer at the...

Join the Aga Khan Museum for a virtual symposium celebrating the exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads, featuring books, scrolls, manuscript paintings, textiles, and objects spanning a 1,000-year history. The exhibition and symposium...

Join the Aga Khan Museum for a virtual symposium celebrating the exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads, featuring books, scrolls, manuscript paintings, textiles, and objects spanning a 1,000-year history. The exhibition and symposium...

Ali Yaycıoğlu, Associate Professor of Ottoman & Middle Eastern history at Stanford and a Visiting Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University (2021-2022).

At the center of this talk is a fiscal codex (defter), housed in the Ottoman...

Paul Babinski, University of Copenhagen

How did orientalists read, learn languages, and produce dictionaries, editions, and other works? Annotated manuscripts in particular offer a glimpse into the orientalist’s study, showing the sources they used...