Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities May 27, 2026 Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor discuss the connections across their work on spectacle and displays of sovereignty in India and Ottoman Istanbul.
The Church Militant and Illiberal: Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss transnational Catholic movements March 9, 2026 Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss the alignments and distinctions in their essays on Catholic social movements.
Letters for the immortal dead December 12, 2025 Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love discuss intersections of life and death.
More Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized April 3, 2026 Julia Elyachar responds to six CSSH authors’ engagements with “the semicivilized.”
Ottoman Heuristics: Six takes on “the semicivilized” March 16, 2026 Koh Choon Hwee, Nora Barakat, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, Fahad Bishara, and Anoush Suni consider Julia Elyachar’s concept of “the semicivilized.”
“The location of sovereignty is still in question,” Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar talk about decolonization and what might come next December 15, 2025 Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar comment on common threads in one another’s CSSH work and consider what’s next for decolonization.
Matter of Faith: Religion and Materiality June 5, 2026 A collection of CSSH essays on sacred images, devotional objects, and holy places.
Doing Things With Words March 18, 2026 A collection of CSSH essays on language, power, identity, and authority.
Martyrs & Memorials December 17, 2025 A collection of CSSH essays on martyrs and memorialization.
Technologies of Devotion and Religious Cooperation in the Mediterranean, 18th-20th Century June 23, 2026 Daniel Hershenzon explores an 18th century case of religious accommodation at the sanctuary of Santa Rosalia, Sicily.
Voices for Palestine in Egyptian Protest History June 23, 2026 Reem Abou-El-Fadl describes the conditions that made oral history necessary, and revelatory, in her research with student activists in Egypt.
Between Discipline and Wonder: On Writing the Unseen into Islamic History February 28, 2026 Arthur S. Zárate contemplates the role of wonder in writing history.
Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor discuss the connections across their work on spectacle and displays of sovereignty in India and Ottoman Istanbul.
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss the alignments and distinctions in their essays on Catholic social movements.
Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love discuss intersections of life and death.
Julia Elyachar responds to six CSSH authors’ engagements with “the semicivilized.”
Koh Choon Hwee, Nora Barakat, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, Fahad Bishara, and Anoush Suni consider Julia Elyachar’s concept of “the semicivilized.”
Fred Cooper and Krishan Kumar comment on common threads in one another’s CSSH work and consider what’s next for decolonization.
A collection of CSSH essays on sacred images, devotional objects, and holy places.
A collection of CSSH essays on language, power, identity, and authority.
A collection of CSSH essays on martyrs and memorialization.
Daniel Hershenzon explores an 18th century case of religious accommodation at the sanctuary of Santa Rosalia, Sicily.
Reem Abou-El-Fadl describes the conditions that made oral history necessary, and revelatory, in her research with student activists in Egypt.
Arthur S. Zárate contemplates the role of wonder in writing history.