We are so used to thinking in regional terms that instinctively we are more at ease with comparisons between adjacent countries.

Questions about Islam, homosexuality, and othering are particularly salient in this age of increasingly violent white nationalism and right-wing homophobic rhetoric. Studying how people find ways to respond to Islamophobia, racism, and homophobia together can help us understand the potential for strategic alliance formations among stigmatized groups.

Apart from various errors in the qurʾānic text itself, my report addresses the illuminations and ornaments used in MS 11. These elements, which coincide with those commonly used in Christianity, have prompted me to call this manuscript a ‘baptized’ one. That is, by adding these elements, the copyist may have intended to visually mark this Qurʾān as associated with Christians or Christianity somehow...