Reconciling the modern categories of race, ethnicity, and religion with ancient examples of identity formation continues to befuddle historians of antiquity. This problem of fusing disparate ancient and modern conceptual...

"Caste marketing" can be understood in several ways: a description of how companies market products based on a caste profile of their users or “caste” groups as targeted market. This...

Perhaps uniquely in South Asia, Jains wrote voluminously about their interactions with Muslim rulers from the Delhi Sultanate to the Mughal Empire. Their writings present us with unparalleled views of...

From the oldest European Christian engagements with the Qur’an in the Middle Ages through the advent of modern academic approaches to the Muslim scripture, scholars have frequently seen qur’anic narratives...

Michael Schur is a television producer, writer, actor and author of How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Questions. With Pamela Hieronymi, Professor at UCLA Department of...

In this lecture, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets the work of Ibn Rushd (“Averroës"), the twelfth-century Islamic scholar of Andalusia who achieved renown as the ‘father’ of secularism, in order to...