On the Judgment of History by Joan Wallach Scott,
Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, was
published September 2020 by Columbia University Press:
“In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves
by saying that...
Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual
Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg,
edited by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung,
Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele,
has been published by the...
In his award-winning novel Life of Pi, published in 2001, the
French-Canadian writer Yann Martel relates the fantastic adventure
of a boy from India who survives a shipwreck and spends 227 days in
the Pacific Ocean, sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal...
In the preface to her last book, The Nativist
Prophets of Early Islamic Iran,1 the late IAS Professor
Patricia Crone (1945–2015)
relates when and how she became interested in Iranian Studies. It
was early on during her time at Oxford that her...