For nearly two decades, Duke professor Mbaye Lo worked to bring attention to the life and writings of Omar ibn Said, a 19 th century West African Muslim scholar enslaved ... performance and modern ...

The concept of Jahiliyya, commonly understood as the period of ignorance before the advent of Islam, has played a significant role in Islamic thought and history. Traditionally, Jahiliyya referred to ...

At the westernmost limits of the Islamic world, Muslim Spain was also undergoing a period ... SCHOLAR Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu was a 15th-century surgeon who worked at the hospital in Amasya (in ...

He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of London, a scholar-in-residence ... and Muslims in the early-modern period. Academically, he is currently exploring representations of Gog and ...