Two centuries of Orientalist scholarship have denied that Islam has a constitutional concept. Premodern Islamic political practice has been subject to mistranslation, misinterpretation and condescension through the eyes of colonisers, and judged inferior to the norms of Western liberalism. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar of Islamic law, sets the record straight in this groundbreaking volume. Traumatised by the tyranny of absolute monarchies, Europe came to see in Islam everything that it despised about itself. By seeking to understand Islamic governance from within its own tradition of reason, Hallaq reveals premodern Islam to have a rich and distinctive constitutional tradition: starting from the individual as a political subject up to the power of executives.

For more information, click here: https://oneworld-publications.com/work/radical-separation-of-powers/

March 2 – Artist Talk with Wendimagegn Belete

5:10-7:00 PM
208 Knox Hall

RSVP here: https://wendimagegnbeletemesaas.rsvpify.com

The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy, co-edited by Hans-Lukas Kieser and Khatchig Mouradian, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2025. Bringing together contributions from fifty established and emerging scholars, the volume surveys the rich body of research produced in recent decades on the late Ottoman period and its enduring legacies. Organized into seven chronological sections and comprising thirty-four chapters and eight supplementary essays, the 792-page handbook guides readers from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first century.

For more information, click here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ib-tauris-handbook-of-the-late-ottoman-empire-9780755644490/