This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.

This book explores intellectual life, politics and reform in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire by studying statesman and historian Ahmed Vasif.

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

This rigorous scholarly appraisal of the legendary biographies of Tamerlane is the first of its kind in any language.

A remarkable book analysing the importance of oratory for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising rulers and inculcating moral values in the medieval Islamic world.

This book shows how regulations that applied to minorities in early Islamic societies were based on traditions originating from the conquerors and the conquered.

An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history.

Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.

This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history.