When Christians living under Muslim rule began to compose theological works in Syriac and Arabic during the first Abbasid century, about 750-850 AD, their intent was not to convert Muslims, but to rea
A dozen studies focus on the emergence of Islamic civilization between the seventh and ninth centuries. Cook (Princeton U.) considers such aspects as pharaonic history in medieval Egypt, the archaic p
Rather than presenting a unitary history of the Ottoman Empire (1288-1918), Heywood collects 16 of his previously published studies with new material added to three of them on aspects of the Ottoman p
Many scholars see caregiving relationships as being based on mutual dependency or interdependency. Extensively cited notions of the ’global care chain’ or ’international division of reproductive labou
This volume is one of a series that collects separately published writings by women who lived through a turbulent time in British history (approximately 1630-1700), almost all of whom would have been
