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North, Central & West Asia

Inner/Central Asia

Banditry, Terrorism & Revolution in Late Imperial Russia

A review of Bandits, Terrorists, and Revolutionaries: The Breakdown of Civil Authority in the Imperial Fergana Valley, 1905-1914, by Yulia Uryadova. I...
Islamic Studies

Urbanization & Ottomanization of a Sufi Order in Anatolia

A review of The City as a Historical Actor: The Urbanization and Ottomanization of the Halvetiye Sufi Order by the City of Amasya in the...
Tibetan/Himalayan

Religious Geography of Tibetan Monasteries

A review of Creating Sacred Space: The Religious Geography of Sa skya, Tibet’s Medieval Capital, by Federica Venturi. Federica Venturi’s dissertation ...
Bioethics

Islamic Bioethics & Assisted Reproducton in Iran

A review of Beyond Clerics and Clinics: Islamic Bioethics and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Iran, by Robert M. Tappan. Too often scholars’ conce...
Russia/Soviet

Finnish-Russian Relations 1880s-1920s

A review of Shared Space, Varied Lives: Finnish-Russian Interactions in Dacha Country, 1880s-1920s, by Kitty Lam. It may surprise many visitors to Hel...
Gender

The Early Islamic Mawali Reconsidered

A review of The Early Islamic Mawali: A Window onto Processes of Identity Construction and Social Change, by Elizabeth Urban. The subject of the mawal...
Islamic Studies

Student Activism in Indonesia

A review of Living for the Caliphate: Hizbut Tahrir Student Activism in Indonesia, by Claudia Nef Saluz. Claudia Nef Saluz’s dissertation makes an imp...
Economic History

Ottoman Mediterranean Cities

A review of Les Sabbatéens saloniciens (1845-1912): des individus pluriels dans une société urbaine en transition (Salonican Sabbatians (1845-1912): p...
Asian Art

Mughal Court Artists, 1546-1627

A review of The Emperor’s Eye and the Painter’s Brush: The Rise of the Mughal Court Artist, c. 1546-1627, by Yael Rice. Mughal court paintings...
Med Anthro

Hunger & Humanitarianism in Nepal

A review of The Anatomy of Ephemeral Care: Health, Hunger, and Short-Term Humanitarian Intervention in Northwest Nepal, by David M. Citrin. Just over ...
Fresh from the Archives

Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Collections, Cairo

A review of the manuscript collections viewable at the Bab al-Khalq branch of Dar al-Kutub wa-al-Wathaʾiq al-Qawmiyya (Egyptian National Library and A...
Russia/Soviet

Socialist Realist Science in the Soviet Union

A review of Socialist Realist Science: Constructing Knowledge about Rural Life in the Soviet Union, 1943-1958, by Maya Haber. Neglected for years befo...
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