The Islamic world finds itself increasingly at the epicenter of our escalating climate emergency, both as a locus of the petrochemical industry and as home to extraordinary landscapes in which the effects of environmental transformation are acutely f...

Social Fabrics looks at tiraz – highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered, or painted inscriptions in Arabic – to trace the structure of medieval Egyptian society during a transformative period. It reveals a story as interwoven and comp...

The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is this dual role more evident than within the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. This remarkable new...