SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
Recent articles from academic journals on the history and culture of the Islamic world, the Ottoman Empire, Byzantium and modern Greece. Each title links to the article’s page at the journal. Some articles require a subscription for the full text.
Updated every week. Last update: 1 November 2026.
Anwar Sadat and Israel: from a comprehensive agreement between Israel and the Arab world to the Israel-Egypt peace accord, 1973–1979 (opens in a new tab)
The Sarıkamış campaign, Enver Pasha and Armenians (opens in a new tab)
Rural society and imperial settlement in the Ottoman Jawlan/Golan Heights, c. 1800–1915 (opens in a new tab)
The Akhunds of Kashgar: Sufi Rivalries in Qing Xinjiang (opens in a new tab)
A “Sect” for Whom? The Rise of a New Islamic Movement in Taozhou, Gansu (1890–1914) (opens in a new tab)
Unifying (and Dividing) the Believers: The Sectarian Governance of Muslims in the People’s Republic of China (opens in a new tab)
From Political Theology to Political Geography: Translation of Sovereignty in Idris Bitlisi and the Ottoman Reconfiguration of Western Political Order (opens in a new tab)
The Role of Ḥisba in FāṬimid Egypt (opens in a new tab)
An Odyssean Journey: Tevfik Rüştü Aras’s Visits to Tehran, Moscow, Berlin, Geneva and Sofia in 1932 (opens in a new tab)
Converging Trajectories: The 1934 Cumhuriyet Scenario Competition and Cooperativist Discourse in Early Republican Turkey (opens in a new tab)
A Christian Arabic Response to Manichaeism: Eighteenth Chapter of the Ninth-Century al-Jāmiʿ wujūh al-īmān (opens in a new tab)
Cinema Capitalism and the Turkish Imagination: Mickey Mouse, Global US Icons, Karagöz, and Cultural Conflict in the 1930s and 1940s (opens in a new tab)
The Constitution of the Syrian Kingdom (1919–1920) and the French Archival Question (opens in a new tab)
The Devil’s Pandemonium: Philosophers, Heretics, and Crusading in Martin of León’s Commentary on John’s Revelation (opens in a new tab)
Comrades in Arms: The Mujahidin, Fatah, and Iran’s Transnational Guerrilla Movement (opens in a new tab)
The self-inflicted wounds of John the Grammarian: suffering and deception at the twilight of the iconomachy (opens in a new tab)
The Syrian Abdāl: The Development of Muslim Eremitic Asceticism on the Black Mountain in the Early Abbasid Period (opens in a new tab)
Mutual aid and the origins of the Greek welfare state: workers’ associations and social insurance, 1890–mid-1930s (opens in a new tab)
Linguistic theory in late Byzantium: Ioannes Glykys’ On Correct Syntax (opens in a new tab)
Filling the Gap (opens in a new tab)
A Jewellery Hoard from Borsippa (opens in a new tab)
Revisiting Islamic Archaeology in the Malay World (opens in a new tab)
The Structure and Functions of Legal Maxims in al-Qarāfī’s al-Furūq (opens in a new tab)
The Sīra in al-Andalus: Ibn al-ʿArabī’s (d. 543/1148) Recension of Ibn Fāris’s (d. 395/1004) Rāʾiʿ al-durar and Its Transmission to the twelfth/fourteenth century (opens in a new tab)