By Hamid Dabashi, author of The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West
So often we hear allusion to this idea of “Islam and the West.” A product of colonialism, this false and dangerous binary has created ongoing enmity and an illusion of two divided worlds. What do we even mean wh...
By Timur Hammond, author of Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul
In late June 2023, the building known as Feshane was reopened by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality as ‘ArtIstanbul,’ a complex consisting of expansive gallery space, a café, meeting ...
At this year’s virtual MESA conference, we hope to spread the news of our exciting Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship. Guided by the series editors, Asad Q. Ahmed and Margaret Larkin, the series will explore Islamicate intellectual history as represented by various d...