The Cats That Did Not Meow An Historian of Iran Discovers Thailand H. E. Chehabi | March 11, 2020 Images & Intersections / Politics & Identity AboutImages & Intersections We are so used to thinking in regional terms that instinctively we are more at ease with comparisons between adjacent countries. Read the rest of this entry
The Global Qur’an (GloQur) Johanna Pink | March 10, 2020 Critical Approaches / Texts & Translations AboutCritical Approaches “The Global Qur’an (GloQur)” will be the first project that tackles the global dimension of Muslim Qur’an translation in the 20th and 21st centuries, a topic that has so far attracted surprisingly little attention in Islamic Studies. Read the rest of this entry
Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World Peter Adamson | June 10, 2019 Texts & Translations Contrary to common assumptions, questions about the value and nature of animals were taken seriously in pre-modern thought. Scholars have explored ancient Greek and Indian discussions of animals, but little attention has been paid to the contribution of Islamic culture, which produced for instance philosophical and scientific works on animals, moralizing fables featuring animal characters, and treatises on veterinary medicine and on the types and uses of animals. The project will uncover the changing conceptions of animals revealed in such works, taking an innovative approach which explores the interaction between descriptive and normative accounts of animals. Read the rest of this entry