Libraries and research institutions around the world hold countless manuscripts and early printed books.1 Some of the most prestigious and beautiful reading rooms are dedicated to these rare materials. Even smaller institutions often have their own division and sometimes a separate reading room or area for these holdings
I have incurred a great number of debts in the process of writing this book. First of all, many thanks are due to Margaret Mitchell, who was my advisor and chair of the committee that accepted an earlier, rather different version of this study as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago in 2015. If this monograph exhibits any scholarly virtues at all, it is largely to her credit
When describing the legal systems and laws of today’s Muslim-majority states in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region, scholarship on Islamic law has identified two categories of laws: one derived from Islamic law, which includes contemporary personal status laws, and the other derived from non-Islamic law of primarily European origin, referring to all other legal fields.
By using the term ‘ethics’ I refer to the philosophical reflection that subjects human behaviour to normative and evaluative assessments94 and elaborates criteria for the evaluation of moral behaviour.95 In other words, I shall consider ethics to be a discipline that conducts a methodical reflection of morality,96 aiming at the development and justification of criteria to be adopted in…
On a Wednesday morning in April 1962, Viktor Karamyshev had to get up early. He was summoned to a meeting at the Ghanaian State Committee for Economic Cooperation with the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern European Countries (CECEC) in Accra
This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history, arguing that art offers fruitful strategies for creating historical consciousness and perspectives for political agency. The analytical instrument of anachrony comes to the fore as an experimental method, as will (para)fiction, counterfactual history, testimonies, ghosts and spectr…