Elias of Nisibis and his Book of Demonstration: An East Syriac Identity in Arabic Language

In his Book of Demonstration, Elias of Nisibis (d. 1046) presents the identity of the Church of the East, from doctrinal, historical, liturgical, and ethical perspectives, in an attempt to distinguish it from the rest of the Christian Churches living in the Abbasid Caliphate and beyond.

Christian Arabs as cultural mediators: al-Makīn Ibn al-ʿAmīd and his Universal History

When the 13th-century Coptic official Ibn al-ʿAmīd was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of universal history from the creation to his own days. His work was to become one of the major instances of Christian-Muslim intellectual exchange in the pre-modern era.

Zaydī rebellion in the Kitāb al-Futūḥ of Ibn Aʿtham (fl. around 320/932): The case of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743)

Ibn Taymiyya and Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī

Introducing Kawāshif al-ḥujub of al-Māzandarānī (d. 1285/1868)

Seeking (or Not Seeking) Clarification: Introducing al-Wāfī fī sharḥ al-Wāfiya of al-Aʿrajī (d. 1227/1812)

Miracles of Mary between Ethiopia and the Arabic-speaking world

How did stories about the Virgin Mary travel between the Middle East, Europe and the Horn of Africa?

On The Historical Potential of Zaydi Legal Sources

“A stray bullet from the seventh century hit Yemen”: Anti-Zaydi polemics and the politics of genealogy in al-Ghobari’s Al-Qabīlah al-Hāshimiyyah