A Medieval Age of Disruption: On Nicholas Morton’s “The Mongol Storm”
Nile Green reviews Nicholas Morton’s “The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East.”
Nile Green reviews Nicholas Morton’s “The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East.”
Nile Green reviews Travis Zadeh‘s “Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos.”
Nile Green discovers Ahmed El Shamsy’s “Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition.”
Nile Green reviews Afshin Marashi's "Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran."
Nile Green reviews "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935" by Leor Halevi.
Nile Green is enlightened by “Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates” by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab.
In "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography," Robert Irwin sets out to both demythologize and re-mystify the influential 14th-century philosopher.
"How effective are Islamic states at satisfying the religious needs of their citizens?" Nile Green on "The Iranian Metaphysicals."
Nile Green on Francis R. Bradley's "Forging Islamic Power and Place:The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ’Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia."
Nile Green on the literary, critical, avant-garde, and unorthodox voices that have always been part of Muslim societies.
For most residents of Southern California, the large Persian community in Westwood's "Tehrangeles" is just another example of US immigration history.
Uyghur history as everyman’s history.