We’re going to be tackling two heavy topics today. They’re marginally different, so bear with me. The first is belief when it intersects with your research. As a Muslim whose career is basically Islam and…
*Above is a recording of a lecture delivered by Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley on February 6, 2018 at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. Dr. Waley’s essay…
While conducting research last summer at the historic Bodleian Library at Oxford, I requested to look at a medieval Arabic manuscript volume which, according to the online catalogue, contained three texts bound together: first, apparently…