Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press
Rachel Bridgewater
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📖New book: Sovereignty in Iran, edited by @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, examining sovereignties as a plural concept from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic📖
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Rachel Bridgewater
📖New book! Edited by John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A. Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner & Jack Tannous, it reimagines the history of the region by integrating Christian experiences and sources📖
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📖New book in @ramonharvey.bsky.social's Islamic Scripture and Theology series: @balabbas.bsky.social's biography of al-Bukhari📖
📚Check out the latest paperbacks in our Ottoman series!📚:
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📖Just published: F. Redhwan Karim's comprehensive analysis of how the Qur’an envisions gender relations📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-gender-...
🎉Just published, and launching the Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography series edited by Jo Van Steenbergen and Mustafa Banister: Antoine Borrut's book on astrology and the construction of historical knowledge in early Islam🎉
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📚Now published!: Han Hsien Liew's book on preaching and emotions in medieval Islamic political thought, and Uriel Simonsohn & Luke Yarbrough's edited volume on cultural brokerage in premodern Islamic societies📚
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🆕Check out our blog for a Q&A with @balabbas.bsky.social about his new book🆕
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New on the blog - Pejman Firoozbakhsh and @arezouazad.bsky.social on the enduring fascination of the Barmakids, and on what this newly translated story cycle has to tell us.
#MedievalSky
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Rachel Bridgewater
Rachel Bridgewater
Rachel Bridgewater
Belal Abu-Alabbas explores the making of the first comprehensive critical biography of Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī.
📚 New on the blog!
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
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Arezou Azad rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Check out my new scholarly biography of al-Bukhari in Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology.
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