by Andrew J. Juchno James Warley Miles (1818-1875) is an enigmatic figure in American religious history, one whose theology evades the neat categories that historians of religion tend to rely upon. In the few studies that treat Miles at length,... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →