The conquest of the Ferghana Valley and the final destruction of the Khoqand khanate are often overlooked in histories of the Russian conquest of Central Asia. Having survived in uneasy limbo as a protectorate from 1866-1875, Khoqand was rocked by a series of rebellions against its unpopular Khan,…

This talk will focus on the study of South Asian history from the 11th to 18th centuries.  After critiquing conventional approaches to the subject, which tend to focus on religion – in particular, Hindu-Muslim relations – the will talk propose an alternative approach that focuses on a Persian…

Announcement An international online conference on Russia and the Muslim world: Through the Lens of Shared Islamic Identities will take place on Thursday 18 March and Friday 19 March 2021

Egyptian foreign trade figures have deteriorated abruptly since the Arab Spring and terrorism events after 2011, which affected firms’ performance. Thus, using firm-level exports data at monthly levels merged with data on Arab Spring and terror events from the Armed Conflict Location & Event…

Between 1831 and 1914, cholera spread from India to Mecca and the Hijaz on at least forty separate occasions. This talk traces the development of Ottoman and international quarantine and public health controls in the Hijaz, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf between 1865 and World War I. Low argues that…

Elizabeth F.

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Oxford Bibliographical Society This lecture will examine a wonderfully illustrated herbal produced in Syria h. 642 (a.d. 1245). Representative of book production among intellectual circles of the Medieval Arab world, it sheds light on artistic collaboration…

This talk focuses on European town views of Safavid Isfahan and Ottoman Istanbul in the seventeenth century. Most Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries, acquired knowledge of these major cities of the Islamic world through the popular publishing genre of travel writing and their visual…