The Other Siege of Vienna and the Ottoman Threat: An Essay in Counter-Factual History

By proposing a counter-factual history in which the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529 succeeded, this essay attempts to illuminate both the parameters of Ottoman power at that time and the complexity of European politics at the dawn of the Protestant Reformation. As with many attempts at counter-factual history, this exercise seeks to offer a warning against teleological approaches to history in which major events and their outcomes are described as being inevitable

Afterword: What If the Arabs Had Failed to Conquer Iran?

This is the afterword to Volume 3 of Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, "New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq.

The Islamic State in Historical and Comparative Perspective

This is a stable archival PDF of an open-access, peer-reviewed journal volume originally published at www.mizanproject.org/journal

New Perspectives on Late Antique Iran and Iraq

This is a stable archival PDF of an open-access, peer-reviewed journal volume originally published at www.mizanproject.org/journal/

First names and political change in modern Turkey.

Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : İnternational Journal Middle East Studies 9, 1978

Remarks by the Recipient of the 2015 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award

I enrolled in Professor Giles Constable’s seminar in twelfth-century European history in 1962, my frst year of graduate study at Harvard. He told us to select a cartulary, which he told us was a term for a collection of medieval documents. We were to write a paper based on what we found there. I selected the cartulary of the Guillem family, the lords of Montpellier in southern France. I realized, given my haphazard memory of the Latin I had taken in high school, that I could not expect to read most of the documents. But I noticed that each document ended with a series of names of witnesses, and, the more important the document, the longer the list. Moreover, the names often included the witness’ occupation and the name of his father. So I made the study of major witness families over a sequence of generations the core element of my paper

Le Chemeau et la roue au Moyen-Orient.

Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : Annales, Economies, Civilisations 24, 1969