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'Shari'a and Kanun: A Study of the Ottoman Empire's Legal System
In the period between the conquest of Constantinople and the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire rapidly increased in...

Dorothy Greene
Apr 15, 202310 min read


A heap of masks buried in Syrian sands: The faces of Queen Zenobia and the woman behind them
In the turbulent days of the late third century CE, in the year 268, a frontier region of the Roman empire, Palmyra, crucial in the...

Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Nov 10, 202220 min read


Arab Strategy in the 1948 War
On the 29th November 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine. Following decades of struggle between its Jewish and...

Harriet Solomon
Nov 10, 202212 min read


Shah Abbas: Founder of Iranian Modernity or Upholder of Tradition?
Shah Abbas I, the ruler of the Safavid empire from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, was accorded a legendary reputation...

Dorothy Greene
Oct 20, 202215 min read


The Political Uses of Art Patronage in the Timurid and Safavid Empires
The Timurid and Safavid empires were vast and in perennial fluctuation. This meant that the leaders of these polities required highly...

Dorothy Greene
Sep 19, 202216 min read


Consumption as an analytical category for understanding the Safavid state and its society
Legend has it that coffee beans were first discovered in Ethiopia by a goat herder who had noticed his goats become more energetic and...

Charlotte Hocquet
Jun 6, 202220 min read


Mediation and Facilitation: Peace Talks in the Arab-Israeli War
Any peace process involving the presence of a third party raises questions as to the nature and extent of this participation. With...

Harriet Solomon
May 30, 202212 min read
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