A practicing Sufi, poet, and speaker, Kahn tells the little known stories of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad in this brief book. Usually ignored or used as salacious fodder, the stories are pieced ...

Author statement: “In This Animal Body, a neuroscience student encounters mysterious talking animals who say they have an urgent message for her. All too often, we humans think of ourselves as ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Join the launch of Sharmistha Mohanty’s most recent title, ‘Book One,’ which is a free-flowing narrative in verse and prose, marking the debut of an astonishing new voice in literature. She will be in ...

These seminars will take place in a hybrid format, meaning that you can attend either in person or online. Foster Court is best accessed through UCL’s Malet Street entrance, opposite the Waterstones ...

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From around 1800, international historians have taken a lively interest in the Italian communes of the middle ages and the renaissance. Their research was strongly linked to those interpretations of ...

From around 1800, international historians have taken a lively interest in the Italian communes of the middle ages and the renaissance. Their research was strongly linked to those interpretations of ...

DANTE ALIGHIERI, whom Yeats called “the chief imagination of Christendom,” has become for the Western world the poet of the Commedia (only later characterized as “divine”). But Dante’s verse was born ...

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