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How Do Humans Make Progress?
DANIEL WOOLF | It’s difficult to dispute that the human species has done, and continues to do, unintelligent things. Not only individually
Sep 15, 2023


Jewish Chess Masters, Religion, and Mental Health
NEIL EISENBERG & IRA D. GLICK | Given the lack of prohibition by Maimonides and the outright recommendation by the Sefer Hassidim, chess...
Sep 14, 2023


Indigenous Cultures and the Imperial History of Britain’s Empire
MADELINE GRIMM | Historians have long struggled to tell the complete story of the British empire,
Jun 22, 2023


Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions
THOMAS HARRISON | The vastness of the human sea of feelings is what first inspires this literary journey,
Jun 8, 2023


Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book
Jun 8, 2023


Theology and Philosophy after al-Ghazali: The End of Philosophy in Islam?
HASAN HAMEED | Griffel’s strategy is simple. The best evidence demonstrating that philosophy did not die after Ghazali
May 25, 2023

Mary Wollstonecraft: Interlocutor for Feminists Today?
MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Wollstonecraft can be a serious feminist interlocutor without being a feminist saint.
May 19, 2023

Philosophical Sufism in Translation
CYRUS ALI ZAGAR | Few premodern Sufi authors will inspire the sense of excitement that ʿAyn al-Quḍāt can. A prodigy from western Iran
May 12, 2023


Sabbath Stew, Pastries, and the Past: A Culinary History of Hungarian Jews
Avery Robinson In 1895, Adolf Ágai wrote an article in the Jewish weekly Egyenlőség (Equality) in which he waxes rhapsodic about Jewish...
Apr 28, 2023


The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
RUSHAIN ABBASI | So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity to
Mar 3, 2023


Arabic Historiography
ISABEL TORAL-NIEHOFF | The emergence of Arabic history-writing in early Islam is a complex phenomenon.
Dec 23, 2022


History’s Imagined Past: How Scholars Invented Historical Time
SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The fields of rabbinics and ancient Judaism have long asked a tantalizing question.
Dec 9, 2022
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