Monday, October 14, 2024

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Mysticism, Power, and Rationalism in the Ottoman Mind: An Interview with Marinos Sariyannis

by Nilab Saeedi Marinos Sariyannis is the Research Director and Department Coordinator of Ottoman History at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno, Greece. He spoke to the JHI Blog about his research on the role of magic and the... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

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Disalienation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Camille Robcis

by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Camille Robcis, Professor of History and French at Columbia University about her recent book Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). A revised... Continue Reading →

Monday, October 7, 2024

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Nietzsche's Debt to Zoroastrianism: How a Cultural Collision Contributed to Also Sprach Zarathustra

by William Finlator "The tragedy of Friedrich Nietzsche is a monodrama: no other figure is present on the brief lived stage of his existence; the isolated combatant stands alone beneath the brief lived stage of his existence." —Stefan Zweig, Nietzsche... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

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Awakening the Ashes: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marlene Daut

by Disha Karnad Jani In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University, about her new book Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (The University of... Continue Reading →

Monday, September 30, 2024

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New JHI Blog Reading List: Islamic Intellectual History

by Nilab Saeedi and Luke Wilkinson The JHI Blog team is pleased to share with our readers a new reading list that was recently added to our repository. The Reading List on Islamic Intellectual History is a comprehensive compendium of... Continue Reading →

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

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Reimagining Islamic Politics: The Ottoman Empire and Global Expansion at the Turn of the Century

by Niels Lee In 1899, the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Oscar S. Straus, approached Sultan-Caliph Abdulhamid II for a diplomatic favor. The United States had recently annexed the Philippines from the Spanish Empire, but the transition was fraught... Continue Reading →

Monday, September 23, 2024

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Discounting as a Political Technology: An Interview with Liliana Doganova

by Alperen Arslan and Zac Endter Liliana Doganova is Associate Professor at the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, Mines Paris, PSL University, working at the intersection of economic sociology and Science and Technology Studies. Doganova spoke with Alperen Arslan and... Continue Reading →

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